The current tags are far from descriptive, while categories organize packages only along one arbitrary dimension.
A much better taxonomy in used in Debian by Debtags: [https://salsa.debian.org/debtags-team/debtags-vocabulary/blob/master/debian-packages](https://salsa.debian.org/debtags-team/debtags-vocabulary/blob/master/debian-packages) because it implements [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification) For example, nmap is tagged: admin::monitoring, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::scanner, role::program, scope::utility, use::scanning