[SM-Discuss] New sections [Was: New archive and perl-cpan maintainer]

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Tue Feb 22 11:42:12 EST 2005


Quoting Thomas Houssin <thomas.houssin at gmail.com>:
<snip>
> So we have several ideas to split the utils section :
>
> - PAM section : all pam stuff (section I more or less volunteered to
> take care of ;-) )
> - shellutils : coreutils, file, grep/sed/gawk, less, rl, which, mktemp,
> etc. (Jeremy Blosser is interested in this one)
> - admin tools : sudo installwatch... ?
> - daemons : at, crons, syslogs, etc  (Jeremy Blosser is interested in
> this one too)
> - the rest in utils...
>
> Does this seems a good idea to everybody ? Other ideas ?

Looks fine to me, though utils looks like it'll still be a catch-all and rather
large while some of the sections (admintools, don't have spaces in section
names ;)) will be fairly small. Do we have problems with small sections? Are
there any other items we can/will add to the admintools section?

-sandalle

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