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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:22:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More category breakup : devel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808081520070.341-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980808212805.23021D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>

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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Narvi wrote:

> 
> As the x11 category got broken up and divided into parts (at last! I
> alreaady thought my eyes would never see it. Seems it was not "beyond
> rescue" after all), how about breaking up devel aswell?
> 
> Why devel? It is one of the big categories, it is one of the "useful"
> categories, it is one of the categories that can (IMHO) be rationaly
> broken up into parts.
> 
> ----- ------
> 
> The proposal:
> 
> corba ->	CORBA ORBs.
> debug ->	tools and libraries which are meant for debuging programs
> devel-libs ->	general purpose development libraries, wrappers for other
> 		languages.
> devel-cross ->	crossplatform development tools
> devel-build ->	makes, ides, bulders and friends.
> devel ->	all other general development tools, etc.
> ----- -----
> 
> Ideas? Comments? Commits? Flames?

I like it!  I sure wish the perl (p5) things had there own real category
(not a virtual one) but this is great!  Devel is definitely getting
overgrown.

> 
> Hope this time around the idea of breaking up devel goes through...
> 
> 	Sander
> 
> 	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
> 	all these are just illusions.
> 
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