I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. On Jul 30, 2013 9:34 PM, "Sam Stuewe" <halosgh...@archlinux.info> wrote:
> On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote: > >> The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal >>> regarding categories, >>> but should be consistent and predictably - which it isn't now. >>> >> >> I tend to agree with the consensus that categories are meaningless, >> unmaintainable crap. >> > I rather fit in to this school of thought as well. The notion of tags for > packages is a cool one, but if it were to be done, I think it would make > more sense for that to be something that anyone can add (if you see a > package that you felt was missing a relevant tag, you could just add it) or > remove. > > Having said that, I'm not sure how much that really adds (assuming people > write pkgdescs well). > > All the best, > > -Sam >