Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

[Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@citycable.ch>]

Le Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:27:47 +0000 (UTC),
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> a écrit :

> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@citycable.ch> posted
> 20070428183250.68881282@localhost, excerpted below, on  Sat, 28 Apr 2007
> 18:32:50 +0200:
> 
> > I disagree. When searching for a software to do a given job and when I
> > have no idea of which software can do it, I begin to look for the ebuild
> > descriptions in the portage tree. It goes faster as anything else with
> > mc. And I will never search a genealogy program in theology, so I will
> > just miss it if it is in theology.
> 
> I think you are missing the distinction between category/package, as seen 
> in the tree and therefore affecting users and externally visible, and 
> herd, which many users likely aren't aware of at all, as it's primarily a 
> Gentoo-internal way for devs to organize packages of a similar theme they 
> may be interested in working on.
> 

It is well possible as I am not a dev. (still) I will look at it. But it
doesn't change at some devs expressed the same concern in this thread. Another
fact remain: theology is about religion when genealogy is about sciences.

Ciao,
Dominique
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