From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHaQK-0007fw-Ei for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:12:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j8K55LZr010755; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:05:22 GMT Received: from himura.kakuri.org (minden014.server4you.de [217.172.177.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j8K52FGu030179 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:02:15 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.179] (dsl-082-082-190-167.arcor-ip.net [82.82.190.167]) by himura.kakuri.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54F979C010 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:07:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Foundation To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] C++ herd proposal Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:21:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <432B4549.1070400@gentoo.org> <432EAFFF.8060605@gentoo.org> <432EBB7E.90005@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <432EBB7E.90005@egr.msu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11630012.FjcYsc6mob"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509200721.08539.trapni@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: a460011f-c49c-400d-b087-7c488877bfa8 X-Archives-Hash: 0b69a870435f59a7372f28d20b9884ae --nextPart11630012.FjcYsc6mob Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 19 September 2005 15:22, warnera6 wrote: > 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. and what's *your* certain proposal then? --nextPart11630012.FjcYsc6mob Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.18 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDL5xEPpa2GmDVhK0RAts5AJ9hvkPk4U5b7As5UFnlZH63okCpIACbBGM0 iMnUE8P8lu0as+QdU+Xlpu0= =50Bo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11630012.FjcYsc6mob-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list