Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes! -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown
> Hi all, > > Here is my first suggestion to clean up the complete mess we have at the > moment when it comes to package categories in the maemo extras repository. > There is no official list of categories, which has brought us to state > we are in now. > > We have these nice categories for example: 'Boingo', 'Canola'. Those > should > never be a category by themselves. We also have a lot of duplicates like > 'cli' ,'Commandline' and 'Web','www' and 'Utilities','utils'. > > This really has to stop as this is confusing for end users. We, the maemo > community, need to find a solution and fix this. > > If we look at Debian, we can see that they have the following list of > categories[1]: > > admin, base, comm, contrib, devel, doc, editors, electronics, embedded, > games, gnome, graphics, hamradio, interpreters, kde, libs, libdevel, > mail, math, misc, net, news, non-free, oldlibs, otherosfs, perl, python, > science, shells, sound, tex, text, utils, web, x11 > > My suggestion would be to base our list off the Debian list and remove > the categories that are not suitable for Maemo. We might also want to add > some categories if we find some missing. > > admin, comm, devel, doc, editors, games, graphics, interpreters, mail, > net, news, utils > > and add: > > desktop, database, education, internet, multimedia, office, scientific, > security, system, travel > > Please feel free to suggest other categories. Try to keep them as broad as > possible. I would really like to get a list of categories where every > application can be in at least one category. It would be nice not to need > the 'misc' or 'other' category. > > Perhaps it would also be a good idea to have the Application Manager > display the pretty name for each category. e.g. comm -> Communication. > That might be step 2 though. > > I also would like your feedback on this idea: > "For diablo we only accept packages in the extras/extras-devel > repositories > when they have a valid category." > > I'm really not sure if we can do this in time for diablo, but at least we > can try to get the community to agree on this. I don't think we can do > anything for existing repositories, but at least we could try for the new > ones. > > Please respond with your ideas, but keep it to the category subject only. > > > - Niels > > [1]Debian Sections: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
