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Re: pkg/48447: update pkgsrc/net/ruby-tw to 1.0.2 with required newgems



The following reply was made to PR pkg/48447; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/48447: update pkgsrc/net/ruby-tw to 1.0.2 with required
 newgems
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:53:59 +0000

 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:20:01AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
  >>>>>  It is abuse of devel/, "devel" is for "Development utilities".
  >>>>
  >>>>  What else is "thread-safe collections and utilities"? Or memoization?
  >>>
  >>>  What makes you think they are development utilities?
  >>
  >> The same as, e.g. boehm-gc and glib2 are development utilities and
  >> live in devel/; they are libraries of general-purpose code used for
  >> writing other program.s
  >  
  >  "general-purpose" should be in "misc".
 
 So you want to move half or more of devel/ into misc/?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 


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