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Package categorization inconsistencies
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: Cygwin Apps List <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:03:51 -0700
- Subject: Package categorization inconsistencies
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While doing my "how big is a full Cygwin installation" research[*], I
came across some inconsistencies in package categorization:
perl_debuginfo: Not in the Debug category. It is also the only package
named *_debuginfo instead of *-debuginfo
cdrkit-doc, fftw33-doc, flac-docs, gsl-doc, gtk-doc,
ImageMagick-doc, libcaca-doc, libcloog-isl-doc, libdatrie-doc,
libgmp-doc, libgstreamer1.0-doc, libisl-doc, liblapack-doc,
libmpc-doc, libmpfr-doc, libpoco-doc, libsigc2.0-doc, libthai-doc,
libunistring-doc, libxcb-doc, libxml2-doc, libxslt-doc, libxslt2-doc,
llvm-doc, octave-doc, postgresql-doc, ppl-doc, qt4-doc, ruby-doc,
texlive-collection-*-doc, tiff-doc: Not in Doc category
The Doc category seems to have two different purposes: documentation,
and tools to create documentation. Currently, there are far more of the
former in this category. Should there be a new category for the tools?
(e.g. gnome-doc-utils, man, manlint, pinfo, xmlto...)
glproto, presentproto, xextproto, xproto: In Devel category, but not X11
category, yet they are part of X11. And, vice versa: the other *proto
packages that are in X11 probably should be in Devel, too.
[*] http://goo.gl/lu61sZ