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 :) Mark
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