On Friday 09 June 2006 03:08, Brian Harring wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:54:08AM +0200, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > On 6/9/06, Grant Goodyear wrote: > > >So, what would people think of moving herds.xml from gentoo/misc into > > >the portage tree, with the rationale being that local tools could use > > >that information for various useful purposes (compiling statistics, > > >doing something that I can't think of right now, whatever)? > > > > How exactly would that be performed and what negative effects would > > the change produce? > > Couple of ways- either > 1) actual cvs move of the file. Changes required are updating any > scripts relying on the existing cvs location (namely > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/herds/herds.xml) That one will have to be changed anyway. It runs on my office system, and my job ends at the end of the month. I don't have any particular problem with things. Perhaps though we should do the copying the herds file into the web tree different anyway. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net