On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:03:42AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I think that gzip and bzip2 obviously belong in the same category. > >Yes. > >> gzip is already in Base. Probably bzip2 belongs there too. I think > >Hmm, ok. Now, if I can just figure out why gzip is in base... coud it be >to manually extract tar.bz2 files? In which case, tar should be there >too.
I guess this makes sense only if tar is in base too. I'm too lazy to check. Hmm. I could easily add this to the packages web page... >> >Wasn't ``someone'' going to move around several packages? Do the >> >maintainers have to do this themselves, or can the hand of fate push >> >around package categories? > >When the hand of fate pushes, it has to answer to the maintainers. Or >more to the point, I do not want to get into the habit of solving >maintainers issues for them, as that won't scale when there are lots of >packages. I'm pretty sure Chris feels the same way. Absolutely. I'd like to amend my previous position, though. Certain categories, like Base (and maybe only Base) should be off limits without consensus. >> I have no problem with maintainers moving their packages into another >> category unless someone wants to do something nonsensical like move >> bash into "compression utilities" or something. > >Well, given that someone wrote an assembler in bash, perhaps bash >*should* be in development :]. Ok. I'm convinced. Just add bash to every category, to be safe. cgf