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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FxrDn-0005F2-Kd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:10:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k64K7lTU032456; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:07:47 GMT Received: from mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (mail-relay-3.tiscali.it [213.205.33.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k64Jx68s019915 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:59:06 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (84.222.84.177) by mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (7.3.104) id 44990828001A0B40 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:58:51 +0200 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:08:23 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Virtualization Herd Message-ID: <20060704220823.5598887b@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <1152021552.29593.43.camel@continental.nick125.com> References: <1151948992.29593.23.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032148.11731.hollow@gentoo.org> <1151956582.29593.25.camel@continental.nick125.com> <200607032228.37612.hollow@gentoo.org> <623652d50607040411s4a7e5513pd4e37ac4b175abc0@mail.gmail.com> <1152021552.29593.43.camel@continental.nick125.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; 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_5vAhX3rz4rK8P7JtfNywJWx; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 5879cade-7dd8-4dcc-a019-51bf02c6345f X-Archives-Hash: f278d73ac1994b5dd9fd2b02c8420e86 --Sig_5vAhX3rz4rK8P7JtfNywJWx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:59:12 -0600 Nick Devito wrote: > Yeah, to me, having those in the emulation category just > doesn't...."fit" there, but, that's just me. Maybe we could take xen, > vmware, qemu, and related packages out of app-emulation, and make a > new category, app-virtualization. That would seem to fit a bit better > then emulation. =20 Oh; and one more thing - please don't confuse herds with categories. herds are defined by metadata, not the package location in the portage tree. Moving stuff in herds is pretty painless, provided all the relevant maintainers agree - indeed, a package can belong to more than one herd. However changing a package's category is much more disruptive and should be avoided. --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_5vAhX3rz4rK8P7JtfNywJWx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEqsq39G2S8dekcG0RAiWvAKDaDJ+UmnIM06PqWWCaAeWSe/9JQQCgpkmA CbLSD4UsX7Qj8xfeVuYAwx8= =VUJF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_5vAhX3rz4rK8P7JtfNywJWx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list