28 Feb
2015
28 Feb
'15
12:20 a.m.
I prefer replacing the hard-coded categories with user-definable tags.
Shouldn't such tags be in the PKGBUILD and also be available in pacman for searching? That said you pretty much get all those features if you put hashtags (like on twitter) into the description of the package.
All that's missing then would be a tag cloud, but that's pretty simple to set up if the hashtag scheme was used.
That's a neat idea which certainly is easy enough to accomplish. Though I don't think such tags should replace the categories. Users may not always know exactly what app/package they are looking for. Categories are the best way to facilitate app/package discovery (IMO). Best Regards, Dustin Falgout