* Frank Ludolph <frank.ludo...@sun.com> [2009-06-29 21:12]: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Frank Ludolph wrote: >>> david.co...@sun.com wrote: >>>>> Webrev is at: >>>>> >>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~richb/pkg-7911-v2/ >>>> >>>> Why the variation between the various GNU Emacs packages; it seems >>>> these should all be Development/Editors? >>> Email discussion back on 4/2-3-4. While it can be argued that >>> functionally similar packages should all be placed in the same >>> category, doing so can lead to confusion because they are started and >>> used differently. For useability, GUI and terminal-based apps should >>> be separated into separate categories to prevent this confusion. >> >> And if you recall, we strongly disagreed on that point. Packages >> should not be categorised differently just because they are terminal >> based or GUI-based in nature. >> >> They should be categorised based on function, not presentation. To do >> so otherwise is a path of madness. >> > Yes, I recall our disagreement. But let me point out that style-of-use > frequently causes items of the same type/function to be organized > separately in browsing types of layouts. For example in a music store > LPs, CDs, DVD-As, and SACDs that contained the same music were usually > displayed grouped by media type rather than music content. There are > counter examples of course, but organization by style of use is not > necessarily a path to madness.
Were you able to find another distribution or classification scheme that used style of use as a primary index? If not, then we should contemplate how to differentiate style of use, as a separate piece of metadata from purpose. - Stephen -- s...@sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list pkg-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
