On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless. On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 PM, lolilolicon <lolilolicon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io> wrote:
This is really inconsistent with all of the other package variables, so I'd just like to propose we move this from merely being AUR metadata to the PKGBUILDS themselves, adding a "category" variable to them, eg:
category="games"
How about tags=(awesome cool game)? </sarcasm>
I don't think this sort of thing belongs in the package metadata. For one thing, categories are arbitrary. For another, no upstream is defining a category for their software.
We have package groups in pacman which is quite different from what you're proposing, and packages are added to the same group only if it makes complete sense.