* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal
@ 2005-09-19 13:22 99% ` warnera6
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From: warnera6 @ 2005-09-19 13:22 UTC (permalink / raw
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Mark Loeser wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> This isn't for what the package is written in, but more for what the
> package is for. If the package is a utility for use when doing coding
> with C++, like the ones I listed, then I think it should be in dev-cpp.
> That's what the metadata for the category describes it to be.
>
> Mark
Once again I'd like to point out that organizing packages in the tree by
category is a stupid idea for this very reason.
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