[aur-general] packages without category

[Ofir Balas]

The only really interesting category imo is the games one. And even that is
mostly pointless. Who really searches the AUR by category after all.
On Jul 30, 2013 7:01 PM, "Daniel Micay" <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rob Til Freedmen
> <rob.til.freedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category'
> > - apparently not a hot topic.
> >
> > Maybe we add another line to Statistics on the AUR front page just to
> > let users know of packages not found by the package search function
> > - unless searched by using 'Category=All', clicked on 'Category' and
> > reading all entries with 'Category=none' to look for possible search
> > targets.
>
> To be honest I find those categories pretty pointless, because they're
> vague (system, lib, x11, ...) and not used for the packages in the
> official repositories. As soon as a package moves to [community] or
> [extra], the category is gone.
>