On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > >> I would also like to see many of them, if not all, moved to the dev-cpp > >>category: > > > > Is this bit really necessary? > > The reason for me adding that bit is the metadata from dev-cpp: > > The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the > c++ programming language. > > Now to me, that means I can find *all* relevant C++ stuff here. If we > don't want that to be the case, maybe we should say "miscellaneous", but > why should something be in dev-libs, as compared with dev-cpp? > net-libs, I could understand, and dev-games, as those could be argued to > have a direct relation.
for generic C++ packages (STLport/boost for example), i can see them being in the dev-cpp category ... but for packages which have specific uses already and arent in 'generic' categories, i dont think they should be moved -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
