On Saturday 17 September 2005 22:24, Mark Loeser wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Saturday 17 September 2005 02:22 pm, Mark Loeser wrote: > >>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 > > I agree with this, but I think dev-libs and dev-util are generic > categories, and moving these packages from there would help users in > finding what they need. I think this is what you are saying atleast :)
I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing development utilities of some sort. There might be some misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so widespread I don't think that anything but app-misc or the like should be moved into a dev-cpp category. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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