Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/28/20:08:30
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:03:42AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>> 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
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