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On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: |
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> Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> > Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> >> I think that dev-util is a very specific category containing |
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> >> development utilities of some sort. There might be some |
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> >> misclassifications in them, but from a user perspective I don't really |
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> >> care about the language anything is written in. As C++ is so |
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> >> widespread I don't think that anything but app-misc or the like should |
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> >> be moved into a dev-cpp category. |
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> > This isn't for what the package is written in, but more for what the |
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> > package is for. If the package is a utility for use when doing coding |
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> > with C++, like the ones I listed, then I think it should be in dev-cpp. |
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> > That's what the metadata for the category describes it to be. |
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> > Mark |
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> Once again I'd like to point out that organizing packages in the tree by |
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> category is a stupid idea for this very reason. |
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and what's *your* certain proposal then? |