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* Package categorization inconsistencies
@ 2014-01-22  2:03 Warren Young
  2014-01-24  9:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
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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* Re: Package categorization inconsistencies
  2014-01-24  9:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2014-01-24 22:10   ` Warren Young
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From: Warren Young @ 2014-01-24 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-apps

On 1/24/2014 02:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Nothing to worry about I guess.

I posted mainly for the maintainers, who may want to change their 
setup.hint files before their next upload.

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