On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> This would also leave the door open for pacman to process these variables in
> future, which could also be useful. I can't be the only person who's wanted to
> do something like "pacman -Q --category=games" to look for installed games.
On 05/09/14 23:38, Nowaker wrote:
The thing is description is to *describe* the package in a few words.
It's not for categorization.
There's a lot of overlap between describing and categorizing. The
pkgdesc is free-form text, so there's no reason why a few extra words
can't be added to help w
> (If a keyword can be missing from the description, it can just as easily be
> missing from the tags/categories).
The thing is description is to *describe* the package in a few words.
It's not for categorization. Should tags be present, people will just
assign them. Just like they already provide
On 05 Sep 2014, at 00:51, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> On 2014-09-04 14:07, lolilolicon wrote:
>>
>> How about tags=(awesome cool game)?
>
> Well, my goal is to sometime be able to search installed packages quickly.
>
> I have installed some games of which I can't recall their names, and th
On 05/09/14 18:42, Nowaker wrote:
"pacman -Q --category=games" => pacman -Qs game
pacman -Ss game | grep -i openttd | wc -l
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;-)
Well sure. But I said it was never going to be as accurate as filtering
by a specific category, so it will be easy to come up with any number of
false posit
> "pacman -Q --category=games" => pacman -Qs game
pacman -Ss game | grep -i openttd | wc -l
0
;-)
Anyway, totally agree categories are bad. Tags on the other hand are
cool. I'd really enjoy searching by tags. Description isn't a good place
for listing all the features or use cases. Consider t
On 04/09/14 06:42, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
I've some stuff I'd like to discuss regarding AUR categores.
To begin with, categories are package metadata that lives in the AUR only. The
PKGBUILDs have no reference to them, nor does pacman.
This is really inconsistent with all of the other packa
still we have tons of packages that do not follow category. Searching
by category is ineffective.
I think the best way to know about package is to let users write "aur
packages reviews" for the packages they love.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> On 2014-09-05 02:59,
On 2014-09-05 02:59, carstene1ns wrote:
> Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera:
> > [...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use.
> > Otherwise, I'm ok
> > with deleting them.
> pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow
> it to
Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera:
> [...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use.
> Otherwise, I'm ok
> with deleting them.
pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow
it to see such data would be to add it to the PKGBUILD or
On 2014-09-04 14:07, lolilolicon wrote:
>
> How about tags=(awesome cool game)?
Well, my goal is to sometime be able to search installed packages quickly.
I have installed some games of which I can't recall their names, and there's
really no quick way to search for them in pacman - that was my
What happens if something really belongs in two categories? In that case,
one should use a tagging mechanism instead of a categorization mechanism.
> On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
> few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
+1
— Jerem
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
> On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
> few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
Completely agreed, except I'd say there is no such thing as "correct
category"...
The category list in AUR
On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 23:13:04 Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
> On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
> few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
I personally try to put things in the proper category, but I would also second
just dropping categ
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 wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
>> This is really inconsistent with all of the o
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera 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="game
Hi,
I've some stuff I'd like to discuss regarding AUR categores.
To begin with, categories are package metadata that lives in the AUR only. The
PKGBUILDs have no reference to them, nor does pacman.
This is really inconsistent with all of the other package variables, so I'd
just like to propose we
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