Hi Guys I only just joined this mailing list and I'm not sure that I can opt to receive past threads. Let's hope the server knows what to do with this email, which is a reply to earlier ones with the same subject. Loui Chang wrote:

In light of recent discussions I've been thinking of removing the category

data from AUR.

I agree completely: the 'category' feature is a major pain in the arse, as there aren't enough of them and I dislike being stalled by something so unessential when updating a package. Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

A much better alternative is to use a tag style system. The tags would be

defined by the PKGBUILD, so it's much more flexible, and a single package can have multiple tags. I changed categories to tags in AUR2.

This is a great idea, but perhaps make it optional for PKGBUILDs. If each must have at least one tag, rebellious package maintainers might add a line like: tags=('screw-tags'). Chris