On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 PM, lolilolicon <loliloli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <h...@barrera.io> wrote: >> This is really inconsistent with all of the other package variables, so I'd >> just like to propose we move this from merely being AUR metadata to the >> PKGBUILDS themselves, adding a "category" variable to them, eg: >> >> category="games" > > How about tags=(awesome cool game)? </sarcasm> > > I don't think this sort of thing belongs in the package metadata. > For one thing, categories are arbitrary. For another, no upstream is > defining a category for their software. > > We have package groups in pacman which is quite different from what > you're proposing, and packages are added to the same group only if it > makes complete sense.
