On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> I actually object to having crap in dev-python, because things should be >> categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented >> in. 90% of the time you don't care about the language. But category >> moves are pretty much pointless, so I don't normally bring it up. > > Do you mean it is pointless because categories are pointless, or because > it is not worth the trouble of doing the move? I assume we inherited > the category idea from fbsd ports.
It is pointless because we should probably have tags; not categories. It is akin to the Section[1] header in a debian control file. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections > > Since we have categories (and assuming we'll keep them), I think that > things should be categorized as correctly as possible (perhaps it's not > the highest priority, but better to have it right than not, eventually). Have you moved a package between categories before? It is not simple to do correctly which is why no one likes to do them unless they are 'necessary'. 'epkgmove' invokes bad memories for many ;) > > If it is better to have scipy in sci-libs rather dev-python, then > perhaps other dev-python packages (like you said) should be moved > elsewhere to be consistent. A quick look at the fbsd ports shows that > scipy is in "science" and numpy is in "math" (for example), so that > agrees with your feeling that neither belong in dev-python. > > -Joe > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
