Categories are very nice and I'd really like to see them implemented. Categories should _not_ be installable, that, in my mind, is not the purpose of categories. Their purpose is to make searching easier and more organised. Currently it's very hard to search for something without knowing the name. If you want some sort of graphics manipulation program, then you won't necessarily find all of them since you depend on the description or a descriptive name (which most packages won't have). If we had categories we could just skim through the "graphics" (or whatever) category and see all of them there. Well, these informations can be listed in PKGDESC field -- in a standardized way (optimized for -Ss search, too). But I still think that group is enough to do that. The (current!) -Sg would feed your needs, if that could also show pkginfos (with an extra -i option for example <- +1 vote for this). So I can't see what should be coded to libalpm. So I ask again ;-): What's wrong with the "graphics" group? An extra "feature": you can also install/remove the "graphics" _category_. Packages can belong to multiple groups (==categories). What's the problem?: There are some not-so-expressive group names (like xfce4-goodies), but who cares... Bye, ngaba
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