[aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Sat Jan 24 09:52:07 EST 2009


On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:25:59 -0500
Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:27:18PM +0100, Geoffroy Carrier wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:42, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I think the categories would be removed.
> > 
> > I think categories are completely useless and should be removed from
> > unsupported too. AFAIK, only [community] is really maintained as a
> > tree.
> 
> I actually like categories. They really help quickly whittle down
> searches. The only problem is that a package can officially only be
> in one category, when actually it could easily fit into two or more.

what about tags instead of categories?

> 
> Categories wouldn't really have to be removed, but you'd have
> to set them manually like in unsupported.
> 



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