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?
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