[gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Brian Jackson]

While looking around the other day, I noticed that there are rss/rdf
readers spread pretty much all over the tree. I asked around on #-dev, and
the concensus seemed to be that they probably belong in net-news even
though they aren't nntp readers. I decided this probably needs a little
more concensus from the community as a whole. Let me know what you think.
I'll do all the legwork to get things aligned once a decision is made.

--Iggy


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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[foser]

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On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:12 -0400, Brian Jackson wrote:
> While looking around the other day, I noticed that there are rss/rdf
> readers spread pretty much all over the tree. I asked around on #-dev, and
> the concensus seemed to be that they probably belong in net-news even
> though they aren't nntp readers. I decided this probably needs a little
> more concensus from the community as a whole. Let me know what you think.
> I'll do all the legwork to get things aligned once a decision is made.

net-www , they are more comparable to browsers than news readers i
think. They are in most cases just another way of getting feeds that are
otherwise viewed while browsing.

- foser

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 17:08, foser wrote:
> net-www , they are more comparable to browsers than news readers i
> think. They are in most cases just another way of getting feeds that are
> otherwise viewed while browsing.

I don't agree. E.g. Opera does nntp, too, but that's no reason to put all 
dedicated news applications into net-www. Following your argument, we could 
drop the net-news category at all.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[foser]

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On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 17:55 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:

> I don't agree. E.g. Opera does nntp, too, but that's no reason to put all 
> dedicated news applications into net-www. Following your argument, we could 
> drop the net-news category at all.

These are not news (nntp) applications as you seem to think.

- foser

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:27:39 +0200 foser <foser@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 17:55 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
| > I don't agree. E.g. Opera does nntp, too, but that's no reason to
| > put all dedicated news applications into net-www. Following your
| > argument, we could drop the net-news category at all.
| 
| These are not news (nntp) applications as you seem to think.

Is *everything* in net-news/ an nntp application? If so, wouldn't
net-nntp be a better name? It seems that some net- categories are
governed by protocol and some by purpose...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 19:27, foser wrote:
> These are not news (nntp) applications as you seem to think.

What I do think is, that it is fairly impractical to limit categories to 
single protocols. nntp is about news and news feeds too.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Stuart Herbert]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 03:12, Brian Jackson wrote:
> While looking around the other day, I noticed that there are rss/rdf
> readers spread pretty much all over the tree. I asked around on #-dev, and
> the concensus seemed to be that they probably belong in net-news even
> though they aren't nntp readers. I decided this probably needs a little
> more concensus from the community as a whole. Let me know what you think.
> I'll do all the legwork to get things aligned once a decision is made.
>
> --Iggy

They belong in www-clients for now, as per the net-www split:

 http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/www-split.txt

Best regards,
Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] rss readers category

[Stuart Herbert]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 16:08, foser wrote:
> net-www , they are more comparable to browsers than news readers i
> think. They are in most cases just another way of getting feeds that are
> otherwise viewed while browsing.

Please do not commit any new packages to net-www.  Put them in one of the new 
www-* categories.

Many thanks,
Stu
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