* Package categorization inconsistencies
@ 2014-01-22 2:03 Warren Young
2014-01-24 9:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Warren Young @ 2014-01-22 2:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin Apps List
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
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* Re: Package categorization inconsistencies
2014-01-22 2:03 Package categorization inconsistencies Warren Young
@ 2014-01-24 9:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-01-24 22:10 ` Warren Young
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2014-01-24 9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-apps
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On Jan 21 19:03, Warren Young wrote:
> 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
I just checked the Fedora packages, and it turns out that they have the
same inconsistencies. Sometimes the docs are part of the base package,
sometimes they are in the same group as their base package, sometimes
they are in the "Documentation" group, sometimes in
"Applications/Publishing". Sometimes the package is called "-doc",
sometimes "-docs".
Nothing to worry about I guess.
Corinna
> 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.
That might in fact be helpful.
Corinna
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