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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Herds (was: Soliciting input for a non-maintainer update (NMU) GLEP)
From:       Ulrich Mueller <ulm () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2013-06-22 9:38:58
Message-ID: 20933.28850.137815.141308 () a1i15 ! kph ! uni-mainz ! de
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>>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, hasufell  wrote:

>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herd
>> a number of animals of one kind kept together under human control

> On that very link:
> a group of people usually having a common bond

That's a figurative meaning derived from the first one, but it doesn't
make sense here. The metaphor is that the herd consists of a set of
packages that are shepherded by their maintainers.

Ulrich

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