ngaba@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu wrote:
I may misunderstood you, but groups are ideal for doing this. Bye, ngaba
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Not at all. Suppose say that all the text editors where in a group called editors. Then pacman -S editors would have installed all of them, and I very much doubt the possibility that anyone will ever need every available editor. The categories on the other hand are only a way of grouping packages for easier searching/browsing through them. This becomes especially valuable when you need a package from a certain category, but you are not acquainted with all of the possible options. Say you need a video player but you're new to the world of GNU/Linux. You haven't heard of mplayer, xine, vlc. But if there is category multimedia you just scan the packages in it and try them until you like some. So I think that a category info would be a most valuable asset to .PKGINFO and the community itself... The way I see it a package can belong to several categories at once - for example totem would be in both multimedia and gnome categories.