Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2001-01-02 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about freshmeat (I only use it for the software search engine), but IMHO Sourceforge suffers just as much or probably even more so from the current Debian hierarchy problem: too generic or just overcrowded categories. That's two of the problems I'm

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-30 Thread mechanix
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 09:59:07AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: !ocseirF iH On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, esoR ocsirF wrote: Graphics |_Gimp |_Xfig etc... Why dont you use existing hierarchies? I like those of Freshmeat and even more the Sourceforge Trove. I don't know about

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
!ocseirF iH On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, esoR ocsirF wrote: Graphics |_Gimp |_Xfig etc... Why dont you use existing hierarchies? I like those of Freshmeat and even more the Sourceforge Trove. Bastian

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 04:21:39AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: InfoProcApp: Information Processing Application The box indicates a generic ontology package here named InfoProcApp. Here is a candidate ontology derived from InfoProcApp [...] Now imagine this higher level hierarchy

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-29 Thread Evan Prodromou
MZ == Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MZ Can you name any Application that is not an Information MZ Processing Application? A spam filter? It processes un-information. B-) ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread esoR ocsirF
Greetings, IANAD, but I would like to suggest an idea that I had. There has been a lot of interest in getting packages arranged by different catagorizations, something like the menu. Most ideas that I have seen so far seem to imply adding new fields to the debs, but his seems like overkill to me.

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread Neal H Walfield
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:32:12PM -0800, esoR ocsirF wrote: Greetings, IANAD, but I would like to suggest an idea that I had. There has been a lot of interest in getting packages arranged by different catagorizations, something like the menu. Most ideas that I have seen so far seem to imply

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
esoR ocsirF wrote: Greetings, IANAD, but I would like to suggest an idea that I had. There has been a lot of interest in getting packages arranged by different catagorizations, something like the menu. Most ideas that I have seen so far seem to imply adding new fields to the debs, but his

Re: RFC: pools and catagories of packages

2000-12-28 Thread Eray Ozkural \(exa\)
Neal H Walfield wrote: I think that this is a reasonable idea, however, it only addresses a small part of the problem. I feel that a better solution would be to use a similar method to perl modules: a hierarchal name space. In fact, we We'll have better than that :) My tool will have a full