Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> said:
> On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:54:06 +0200
> Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:22:16 +0300
> > Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > > > For example, in IRC, willikins tries to look up the members of 
> > > > "no-herd" when you do !meta -v because the bot lacks a special 
> > > > exception for this odd-ball value.
> > > Just because willikins behaves like that does not justify the
> > > removal of this tag. God knows how many utilites and scripts are
> > > out there using the no-herd tag from metadata.
> > 
> > There's, of course, metadata.dtd too but repoman re-fetches it on
> > a regular basis so that's no problem.
> 
> Ah, my bad. Our metadata DTD doesn't enforce existence of any <herd/>
> tag. Neither does repoman. So, it's just that one webpage which says
> there must be one.

You might want to check out the discussion on
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279206

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