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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HhmGi-0008Ke-GL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:43:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3SCgJl2015632; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:42:19 GMT Received: from serverkommune.de (serverkommune.de [88.198.12.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3SCeUHr013430 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:40:30 GMT Received: (qmail 25670 invoked by uid 89); 28 Apr 2007 14:40:30 +0200 Received: from xa3bb.x.pppool.de (HELO ?10.0.23.24?) (postmaster@digital-trauma.de@89.59.163.187) by serverkommune.de with ESMTPA; 28 Apr 2007 14:40:30 +0200 Message-ID: <4633408F.5030507@digital-trauma.de> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:39:43 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VGhvbWFzIFLDtnNuZXI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070321 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology References: <463159E2.4030009@gentoo.org> <1177647086.2532.495.camel@phoenix> <20070427072418.6ae6bd78@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20070427105925.GE31162@ubik> <20070427200225.7ad15493@localhost> <46329CF0.8030800@gentoo.org> <4632BA6E.3070005@gentoo.org> <20070428105646.2b187289@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070428105646.2b187289@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l3SCgJmx015632 X-Archives-Salt: 6ad4bec0-2788-45d7-8133-934cb738dab5 X-Archives-Hash: bea330e18138245f8b5c8450ca651cae Hi, I would hate to drag this discussion on endlessly, so I promise this will be my only post :). Dominique Michel wrote: > Le Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:26 -0700, > Josh Saddler a =C3=A9crit : > > =20 >> Steve Dibb wrote: >> =20 >>> Dominique Michel wrote: >>> =20 >>>> I fully agree, theology is the worst possible name if the herd will >>>> include >>>> both religious and scientific softwares. >>>> =20 >>> No worries, app-misc/gramps was dropped from the theology herd, and i= s >>> herdless once again. >>> =20 >> So what's the big problem >> of sticking it into a herd somewhere, a herd that seems to be maintain= ed >> by just one person (beandog in this case)? >> >> =20 > The fact at the herd is maintained by one or more peoples have nothing = to do > with this. It is about the meaning of the words and consistency. If I p= ut > gramps into theology, I can put gnome into kde, mplayer into media-soun= d and > grabcartoons into theology. > =20 I still fail to see why this is such a big thing if one package which is mainly used in relation to a religion is in a herd called theology. It's not as if the world will come to a shattering halt and chaos will reign. If for some reason the gnome herd adopted fluxbox or the KDE people would take care of HAL, would you object because their herd names don't fit? Even if the alternative was the packet remaining herdless, because no other herd was interested? It's not as if this is a giant library, where a book will be lost forever if it's in the wrong category, or like putting ID on the science curriculum. Herds loosely lump related packages together, don't they? I thought they were just infrastructure, not real categories. Regards, Thomas --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list