Frank Ludolph wrote: > The Pkg Mgr GUI has a two-level package categorization hierarchy that > can be used, in addition to search, to browse and select specific > packages for installation. The categorization in the preview release was > incomplete. We are looking to improve this in the near future. After > reviewing several existing categorization schemes we are proposing the > following. > > The scheme below is designed to be user oriented rather than purely > logical. For example Drivers would logically be placed under System and > Applications under Desktop. But this would both flatten their spaces (no > subcategories due to the two level limitation) and force users to go > through a primary category - System or Desktop - for the packages > end-users are most likely to access. > > Due to implementation limitations at this time no two subcategories can > have the same name so there are subcategories like "Localizations > (Desktop)" and "Localizations (System)". The need for the "( ... )" > should be addressed in the near future. > > All primary categories will have an "All" subcategory that lists all > packages within that primary category. > > Comments and suggestions welcomed.
You may be interested in this message Stephen posted: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-August/005556.html ...or Glynn's reply: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-August/005658.html Cheers, -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
