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 1HmAsq-0002rP-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:48:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4AFlq0s000475; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:47:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4AFjuZ5030710 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:45:56 GMT Received: from [192.168.20.50] (dsl081-053-210.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.53.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D7864E07 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <46433E31.4070107@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 08:45:53 -0700 From: Mike Doty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070426) 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] [RFC] missing tag in metadata.xml References: <200705101738.42962.bangert@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200705101738.42962.bangert@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 881d7bd9-2955-4fac-a4d4-9ecfb62f769b X-Archives-Hash: a755c2fb270d245f4dd913342078f130 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thilo Bangert wrote: > The metadata cleanup continues... > > A list of 427 packages found at > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~bangert/herd-metadata-check.log > > do not have the required tag in their metadata.xml[1]. > > Is it reasonable to simply add the no-herd or should perhaps > the policy be relaxed, such that a missing tag is equivalent with > no-herd? > > kind regards > Thilo > > [1] Gentoo Development Guide - Package and Category metadata.xml > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/metadata/index.html iirc there was a flamewar about this a while ago. you should look at the archives to see what people decided. - -- ======================================================= Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo Council Gentoo Infrastructure Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead GPG: E1A5 1C9C 93FE F430 C1D6 F2AF 806B A2E4 19F4 AE05 ======================================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRkM+KoBrouQZ9K4FAQIfigP+K447icY7rWKLnltRkm+omZqVGfj5AbwE ahY3UlIb/McOxor+IDwbw05BJ85Mys1fVdB4NWK6UZJu3bGLA2Gl4nHHQJjnwp1b FPHeE/C15E1U0lkuY0AppH/ABOEi3Sdw9gMxlQTQvLD/qTQ1+thcMrBvYjb1r7DH 5H23iAxxB6U= =kmPd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list