[aur-dev] Remove category support

[Hugo Osvaldo Barrera]

On 2015-02-27 13:56, Dustin Falgout wrote:
> 
> Well, I think the natural place to start is the freedesktop.org spec. I
> think it makes sense to use all the main categories[1] and then choose a
> few child categories from the Additional Categories[2] defined by the spec.
> 
> [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
> [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html
> 

The big difference with those categories is that a single menu entry may have
multiple categories, which actually avoid all the "There's no appropriate
single one" issue.

On 2015-02-27 16:24, Florian Pritz wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't such tags be in the PKGBUILD and also be available in pacman
> for searching? That said you pretty much get all those features if you
> put hashtags (like on twitter) into the description of the package.
> 
> All that's missing then would be a tag cloud, but that's pretty simple
> to set up if the hashtag scheme was used.
> 

I actually suggested this on aur-general, but the idea was pretty much
rejected. I'd love to see free-form tags on packages. All games would have
"games", for example, to see which games i have locally pretty fast.

On 2015-02-27 18:36, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
> 
> Could you please provide 2-3 realistic use cases (maybe with examples on
> the production AUR database) where categories actually help with finding
> the right package? Having such examples might help with investigating
> whether tags would be a good replacement and how we can generally
> improve the search interface.
> 

That's an excelent starting point if we're too keep categores. I'm also pretty
sure that we have clear examples were there's no single appropiate category.

-- 
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
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