maillog: 12/07/2005-20:07:11(-0400): Ned Ludd types > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:01 +0200, Stefan Knoblich wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this has been a little longer on my ToDo list and i think now is the right > > time to propose it > > (before starting to put asterisk-1.2(_pre) stuff into the tree...). > > > > Things that should be moved: > > s/should/could > > > > and everything else telephony related that's missing here. > > > > Why net-telephony? > > Some of these things aren't purely (or enterely not) VoIP only e.g. > > asterisk, zaptel and libpri > > (and more stuff being out there that wouldn't fit into a voip only > > category). > > > Comments? Suggestions? > > > While as much as we love and depend on these programs. Moving them wont > really help anything other than making the tree slightly easier to > navigate by end users. This slight gain of category navigation comes at > a price in that it invalidates existing packages/GRP sets and causes > breakage for users that utilized overlays. One might think is that not > what fixpackages is supposed to fix. But sadly the existing fixpackages > is flawed in design which renders it pretty much usable to most. > > I love these ebuilds but I hope you do not add net-telephony to the > tree.
Every post against moving/renaming a package in the tree gets my support. Remember, the alternative to a flat portage tree is to keep packages in place. -- -* Georgi Georgiev -* The sheep died in the wool. -* *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *- *- -* +81(90)2877-8845 -* -* -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
