Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:43:24AM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
ross:
At some point we need to agree a list of category names (or to just use the top level of the module hierarchy instead).
Regarding this, we'll make things (a little) easier by reusing (roughly) the categories from existing package systems. Some kind of intersectoin between say, openbsd and debian and gentoo. Here's the openbsd package categories:
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Merge this with say debians categories, and add our own.
Debian *has* categories (called sections), but is trying to get rid of them. They are currently working on (it's in unstable and mostly working) a replacement system, debtags. debtags differs from the section system in that packages can have multiple tags, and queries can include conjunctions and disjunctions; IME this makes it much more useful (speaking as an unstable- tracker). Perhaps we should look into copying debtags's ideas? (we need to support some kind of tagging, for the sake of package generation)
The main debtags site: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/
Using a tagging-style categorisation for packages gets my vote. It's just a shame that we're stuck with a hierarchy for module names :-) BTW, Ross - the web interface looks great, nice work. Cheers, Simon