On 1/5/07, Stefan O'Rear
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/
I agree with this. For those who haven't read it "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags" is a good discussion on categories vs tags: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html Cheers, Johan