Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting all log related packages into it's own category (sys-logging)

["Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)" <kevquinn@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:13:46 +0100
Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I was thinking, how about putting all log related packages into their
> own category?

Personally I think unless there is a real problem that needs to be
resolved, moving packages around should be avoided.  We've been over
the problems of the concept of categories many times, I don't see any
value in going through it in depth again as categories are too deeply
embedded to be changed.  Suffice to say that any package is likely to
have several reasonable categorisations, however the tree only supports
one. Different people will prefer different categorisations according
to each person's perspective, so moving packages to suit one perspective
just messes things up for another perspective.

> Maybe creating a logging herd would be an idea to, to remove the load
> from the base-system herd.

Creating a herd is not a problem; obviously herds and categories are
completely different things.  However a quick scan of the
logging-related packages in sys-admin shows they mostly do not belong
to a herd, so are not imposing any load on the base-system herd as such.
Creation of a herd for these packages would be a question for the
maintainers of those packages :)

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn

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