On 2015-02-27 13:56, Dustin Falgout wrote: > > Well, I think the natural place to start is the freedesktop.org spec. I > think it makes sense to use all the main categories[1] and then choose a > few child categories from the Additional Categories[2] defined by the spec. > > [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html > [2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apas02.html >
The big difference with those categories is that a single menu entry may have multiple categories, which actually avoid all the "There's no appropriate single one" issue. On 2015-02-27 16:24, Florian Pritz wrote: > > Shouldn't such tags be in the PKGBUILD and also be available in pacman > for searching? That said you pretty much get all those features if you > put hashtags (like on twitter) into the description of the package. > > All that's missing then would be a tag cloud, but that's pretty simple > to set up if the hashtag scheme was used. > I actually suggested this on aur-general, but the idea was pretty much rejected. I'd love to see free-form tags on packages. All games would have "games", for example, to see which games i have locally pretty fast. On 2015-02-27 18:36, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > Could you please provide 2-3 realistic use cases (maybe with examples on > the production AUR database) where categories actually help with finding > the right package? Having such examples might help with investigating > whether tags would be a good replacement and how we can generally > improve the search interface. > That's an excelent starting point if we're too keep categores. I'm also pretty sure that we have clear examples were there's no single appropiate category. -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
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