On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen <[email protected]> wrote: >> There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' >> - apparently not a hot topic. > > I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD > using burp or a similar AUR uploader. If the categories were to stay > [1], it would be good if these uploaders or AUR rejected packages > without a category. > > [1] I don't think the caetgories are useful in the current state, > because they don't represent natural grouping of existing software at > all (eg. should a GTK utility be considered "gnome", "x11" or > something else?). For this to work, tags would be in my opinion much > more usable – given the packages were properly tagged, anyone could > easily find packages such as "gtk multimedia player".
I think descriptions and dependencies include the required information in almost every case.
