The devel:libraries:c_c++ repository within the Open Build Service (OBS), hosted by openSUSE, is a project dedicated to hosting essential C and C++ libraries that serve as foundational components for software development. These libraries are selected for their broad utility in various applications and are typically not aligned with other specialized OBS projects, making this repository a centralized hub for such core building blocks.

The repository focuses on C and C++ libraries that provide critical functionality for software development, such as data processing, compression, and utility functions.
Examples include boost, which offers extensive support for tasks like linear algebra, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions, and unit testing, and zlib-ng, a modernized, high-performance replacement for the zlib compression library optimized for contemporary hardware.