[arch-dev-public] In what repo eventlog should be readded?

[Andreas Radke]

Am Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:55:23 -0800
schrieb Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org>:

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:41:49AM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> > 2007/11/5, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > >From Scott's email in the pacman-dev ML, I realized that the
> > > >eventlog
> > > package, a makedepends for syslog-ng, has been moved to
> > > unsupported by mistake. So it should be readded to the repo. I
> > > wonder if it should be readded in extra or placed in core instead?
> > 
> > IMO it should be fine in Extra.
> > makedepends should not require placing them in Core, IMO.
> 
> Assuming we still follow the rule that core should be totally
> independent of extra then a makedepend *does* have to go into core.
> 
> It doesn't have to be in base or base-devel mind you.
> 
> Jason

Glib2 is another makedepends of syslog-ng still sitting in extra.
Just a reminder. For consistency we should tread them the same way. I
vote for moving both of them to core.

Andy