In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Santeri Kannisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >> > >[clip] > >> 13.3.1 Category >> >> Is used to group similar packages together. For example "databases", >> "corelibs", "X11", "Gnome", "KDE", "Games". Sub-categories are >> permitted, should there be sufficient packages to make this worth while. > >That is rather confusing to beginners and advanced users probably >know what they are looking for. Moreover, if you consider custom >selections in installers or menu's in graphical environment >the output would be useless.
What on earth would a beginner be doing looking there in the first place... > >Consider eg. looking for Linux games: which category you should >select (KDE, GNOME, X11 or Games)? Or what does X11 tell to a novice? > >I suggest organizing packages according to use like: > >1. Work >2. Entertainment >3. Networks >4. Development >5. System >6. Help > >Number of top level categories should be also limited because >of the limits of meat-machines. > If you mean humans, why? /etc gets extremely cluttered, and nobody cares because for the most part nobody's interested in taking a flesh-and- blood eyeball to it. Same here. > >Another criteria could be how often you need these applications. >In real work and real life computers are not used for configuring >or playing with some hardware. Therefore I would consider putting >"hardware" under 6. System and naming it according to use, eg. >Configuring (System/Configuring). > Sorry, but I think you've rather misunderstood what I was getting at. The aim was that it should be text so that eyeballs/editors can be used, but under normal circumstances, even experienced users would never want to go near it. Apologies, Santeri, but I think you and I were actually addressing different issues - it's just that yours matched what I thought I was looking for. I suspect what you want may well be seen as "standardizing what doesn't need standardizing" and therefore outside the scope of the LSB. A standard classification for users would be very nice but different classifications are used to differentiate distributions. A standard way of identifying what is on the system is required in order for a Debian-packaged package to install correctly on RedHat (or even RedHat on SuSE :-) -- Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk HEX wondered how much he should tell the Wizards. He felt it would not be a good idea to burden them with too much input. Hex always thought of his reports as Lies-to-People. The Science of Discworld : (c) Terry Pratchett 1999
