[aur-general] Categories

[Tai-Lin Chu]

On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 PM, lolilolicon <lolilolicon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo at barrera.io> wrote:
>> This is really inconsistent with all of the other package variables, so I'd
>> just like to propose we move this from merely being AUR metadata to the
>> PKGBUILDS themselves, adding a "category" variable to them, eg:
>>
>>   category="games"
>
> How about tags=(awesome cool game)? </sarcasm>
>
> I don't think this sort of thing belongs in the package metadata.
> For one thing, categories are arbitrary. For another, no upstream is
> defining a category for their software.
>
> We have package groups in pacman which is quite different from what
> you're proposing, and packages are added to the same group only if it
> makes complete sense.