I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. On Jul 30, 2013 9:34 PM, "Sam Stuewe" <halosghost@archlinux.info> wrote:
On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote:
The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal
regarding categories, but should be consistent and predictably - which it isn't now.
I tend to agree with the consensus that categories are meaningless, unmaintainable crap.
I rather fit in to this school of thought as well. The notion of tags for packages is a cool one, but if it were to be done, I think it would make more sense for that to be something that anyone can add (if you see a package that you felt was missing a relevant tag, you could just add it) or remove.
Having said that, I'm not sure how much that really adds (assuming people write pkgdescs well).
All the best,
-Sam