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

[Aaron Griffin]

On 11/5/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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.

I agree with Andy here. It's only two packages, and this way it keeps
[core] independant (covering Jason's response too).