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.
Couldn't a new packages be created, something like a Catagories.deb that contained a databased of entries for each type? like... Graphics |_Gimp |_Xfig etc... and when somebody thought that a package should be added to a catagory they just submitted a bug against the catagory package. Extra catagories could be added by bug requests also. This would allow package maintaners the ability to say where there packages belong but also the users would be able to feed back into the catagories as well. This would require some modification to the package front ends and allow the current system to stay intact without modification. -- Frisco Rose "By any other name, I would smell the same" E.O.U. Stud. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Mathematics Computer Science INTACT Director
