Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Markos Chandras 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 >> wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >>> >>> On 10/09/2011 11:01

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-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 t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:22:16 +0300 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/09/2011 11:15 πμ, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras > > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > >> > >> On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-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 > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >> >> On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there a real reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:04:01 +0300 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/09/2011 11:01 πμ, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a real reason to have no-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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras 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 no-herd? As I see it, >> it's just an ugly hack which all programs have to learn and hack >> fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removing no-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 no-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 ugly ha

[gentoo-dev] Removing no-herd?

2011-09-10 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, Is there a real reason to have no-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 optional? Of course, that probably would require fixes to programs using metadata.xml but better develop a long-ter