Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-11 Thread Michał Górny
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-11 Thread Mark Loeser
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

[gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, Is there a real reason to have herdno-herd/herd? As I see it, it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack for no benefit. Wouldn't it be much better to just make herd/ optional? Of course, that probably would require fixes to programs using metadata.xml but better

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, Is there a real reason to have herdno-herd/herd? As I see it, it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack for no benefit. What is the problem with that? Why is it an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, Is there a real reason to have herdno-herd/herd? As I see it, it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:04:01 +0300 Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, Is there a real reason to have herdno-herd/herd? As I see it, it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack for no benefit. What is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: Hello, Is there a real

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
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: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Christoph Mende
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:22 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: I would say that each package needs to have at least one herd or maintainer (which may be maintainer-needed or maintainer-wanted). Well, you can easily assign your packages to dozen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing herdno-herd/herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512