[aur-general] [SPLITTED] AUR package categories (WAS: drpython PKGBUILD update)

[Jordi Cerdan]

El jue, 05-06-2008 a las 14:41 -0500, Aaron Griffin escribió:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Jordi Cerdan <jcerdan at tecob.com> wrote:
> > El jue, 05-06-2008 a las 21:27 +0200, Ronald van Haren escribió:
> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu 2008-06-05 20:20, Ronald van Haren wrote:
> >> >> on a sidenote, I really don't see any point in having these
> >> >> categories. The categories are really not intuitive and don't help
> >> >> searching for a kind of package any easier.
> >> >> Well, it may be just me of course :p
> >> >
> >> > I don't think they are extremely useful, but they don't hurt neither.
> >> > Someone may think: "Let's see what cool game it's on the AUR" and then
> >> > look at the "games" category.
> >> >
> >> > Every distro has packages in categories, and I think it does make sense.
> >> >
> >>
> >> package categories are dropped from [core] and [extra] it seems from
> >> both the  ABS tree and the package browser on www.archlinux.org
> >>
> >> Anyways, having package categories does indeed make sense as you
> >> described in the case of games, as well as some other sorts of
> >> packages. I just think the categories are really bad defined IMHO. For
> >> example you need an editor. Most likely the editors are to be found in
> >> the following categories: editors, devel, gnome, kde, xfce and maybe
> >> even x11
> >> Especially the gnome/kde/xfce categories seem not really needed to me.
> >>
> >>
> >> > P.s.
> >> > The first time I read your mail I thought you were proposing to drop
> >> > categories, but probably you were not.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Alessio (molok) Bolognino
> >> >
> >>
> >> no if I was proposing something I would have started a new thread. It
> >> was just to see what others were thinking about it.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > May be categories should be dropped and a tag systems installed, so that
> > a package could belong to multiple tags.
> > As in drpython, the IDE for python, this one could belong to devel and
> > editors at the same time.
> 
> Pacman is working towards this. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7132

Great!