On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o> wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> I actually object to having crap in dev-python, because things should be
>> categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented
>> in. 90% of the time you don't care about the language. But category
>> moves are pretty much pointless, so I don't normally bring it up.
>
> Do you mean it is pointless because categories are pointless, or because
> it is not worth the trouble of doing the move?  I assume we inherited
> the category idea from fbsd ports.

It is pointless because we should probably have tags; not categories.
It is akin to the Section[1] header in a debian control file.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections

>
> Since we have categories (and assuming we'll keep them), I think that
> things should be categorized as correctly as possible (perhaps it's not
> the highest priority, but better to have it right than not, eventually).

Have you moved a package between categories before?

It is not simple to do correctly which is why no one likes to do them
unless they
are 'necessary'.

'epkgmove' invokes bad memories for many ;)

>
> If it is better to have scipy in sci-libs rather dev-python, then
> perhaps other dev-python packages (like you said) should be moved
> elsewhere to be consistent.  A quick look at the fbsd ports shows that
> scipy is in "science" and numpy is in "math" (for example), so that
> agrees with your feeling that neither belong in dev-python.
>
>                                        -Joe
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