Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New category: dev-debug

[Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org>]

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On 10/01/2024 12.01, Sam James wrote:
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> Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> writes:
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>> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>> On 07/01/2024 13.48, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'd like to propose adding a new dev-debug category.  The
>>> description
>>> could be:
>>>     Code debuggers and debugging-related tools.
>>
>> Seems sensible. I'd probably drop the "Code" from the description,
>> since packages like d-spy do not primarily debug code.
>>
>> I assume profilers are explicitly not part of this category?
> 
> leio had the same question and we came up with a list of about 5-6
> packages at least which would fit in a dev-profile category...

Right and a sensible next step would probably be an extra category for 
those.

The problem is that that the lines between profilers, tracers, and 
performance counter tools sometimes gets blurry. But I think it could be 
fine to shove those all into one category, but maybe dev-perf then 
(e.g., "Tools for performance analysis")?

- Flow

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