[pacman-dev] A prosition for an enhancement - addition of category info to .PKGINFO

[Aaron Griffin]

On 6/19/07, Bozhidar Batsov <lordbad at e-card.bg> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be wise if the category information was added to each
> package's .PKGINFO file? That way clients could search for or in package
> categories and the capabilities of GUI front-ends could enhanced a great
> deal. As a matter of fact why was this possibility ever considered and
> if so why was the idea dropped?

You mean like this?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7132