On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:54:35AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >I doubt it'll actually increase customer support calls... Also, could >it be that one reason the categories aren't used too much is that they >are rather arbitrary in some cases, and don't serve to group similar >packages well enough? I could elaborate, but just to give a short >example, finding Apache with all the related modules in the Web/Httpd >(or Net/Httpd) subcategory is more logical (i.e., easier) than trying >to pick out all of the Apache-related things from the Web (or Net) >category, isn't it?
If there are apache modules which are not in "web" then that's a bug. I really really don't think that adding subcategories is a useful endeavor at this point. Improving the setup GUI so that it is easier to find things and so that it is more obvious that Category is a clickable entity may be, though. >Oh, and one more useful feature of categories is the "Install all" >facility -- that would be used more often if the (sub-)categories were >smaller. Ok, I'll agree that that is a good argument for subcategories, but, again, I'm not getting the feeling that anyone is actually installing categories even now. I think that's due to the fact that it isn't obvious that you can do this. I think that the package selection part of setup.exe needs huge amounts of work, personally. cgf