Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-science] Scientific Gentoo reorg: on herd naming

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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George Shapovalov wrote:
> The herd naming issue has surfaced in more detail again - there were already 
> two comments that it is beneficial to keep -sci in herd names. I originally 
> suggested that we drop it (and in general go with a "catchier" names), but 
> now it looks like I am slowly turning towards being more conservative 
> myself :). That is to keep sci- and possibly resembel category names as much 
> as possible. The reasoning: making life easier on bug wranglers and on 
> everybody trying to search for the sci-related maintaince info or just to see 
> the relationship between different packages.. Any thoughts?

As I said on the bug, I don't really think this makes sense.
metadata.xml will show either 'electronics' or 'sci-electronics',
however you name it. You can use herdstat or many other tools to display
things in many different ways related to package maintainers/herds/etc.
Naming herds after categories doesn't really make sense when there isn't
a 1-to-1 mapping of herds and categories.

Thanks,
Donnie


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