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

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%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 15:24:46 +0900

 On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:55:01 +0900, David Holland 
<dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  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/?
 
 This kind of issue was discussed long time ago,
 1. it is known problem
 2. moving those packages is not welcomed
 3. adding new categories was rejected
 
 So, "only solution we can do now" is "think about more sufficient
 categories than devel/ before adding new packages."
 
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