From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBGgt-0005Dg-6h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:27:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1KJPiL0032252; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:25:44 GMT Received: from mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (mail-relay-1.tiscali.it [213.205.33.41]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1KJMZcm013984 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:22:35 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (84.222.87.21) by mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (7.2.069.1) id 43E78ED3001EF1B7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:22:35 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:30:20 +0100 From: "Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting all log related packages into it's own category (sys-logging) Message-ID: <20060220203020.4c919c7a@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <43F9C08A.6020101@gentoo.org> References: <43F9C08A.6020101@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_yNvqpG9QkL4X8OiOCY_aInF; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 3f726d31-e8a8-4395-a12c-4ab27f90c2d0 X-Archives-Hash: 729226b1a4f70de951a887473aa229a5 --Sig_yNvqpG9QkL4X8OiOCY_aInF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:13:46 +0100 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen 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 :) --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_yNvqpG9QkL4X8OiOCY_aInF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD+hjQ9G2S8dekcG0RAmASAJ9WObxrYDXGC9tuZ04TrM0HCYKWKQCg0SKD ny8DL3Kbz9uHzzKJAO0f9TU= =xMqH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_yNvqpG9QkL4X8OiOCY_aInF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list