[gentoo-dev] herds for category metadata?

[gentoo-dev] herds for category metadata?

[Robin H. Johnson]

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I was just finally shuffling packages into the app-backup category
(originally discussed in March, but not implementing due to epkgmove
status at the time), and I wanted to put the herd into the category
metadata, but I found that we don't allow it presently.

Could the metadata.dtd please be changed to allow a herd to be
specified in a category metadata.xml?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] herds for category metadata?

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Monday 04 July 2005 09:26, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> I was just finally shuffling packages into the app-backup category
> (originally discussed in March, but not implementing due to epkgmove
> status at the time), and I wanted to put the herd into the category
> metadata, but I found that we don't allow it presently.
>
> Could the metadata.dtd please be changed to allow a herd to be
> specified in a category metadata.xml?

The reason is that herds != categories and making a herd responsible for a 
category would promote miscategorization of packages to avoid a herd. The 
idea behind having the metadata.xml files is to maintain the data without 
needing to put it into the categories.

Paul

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