The current tags are far from descriptive, while categories organize packages 
only along one arbitrary dimension.

A much better taxonomy in used in Debian by Debtags: 
[https://salsa.debian.org/debtags-team/debtags-vocabulary/blob/master/debian-packages](https://salsa.debian.org/debtags-team/debtags-vocabulary/blob/master/debian-packages)
 because it implements 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification)

For example, nmap is tagged: admin::monitoring, implemented-in::c, 
interface::commandline, network::scanner, role::program, scope::utility, 
use::scanning

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