Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-31 Thread Emil Lundberg
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rob Til Freedmen < rob.til.freed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Emil Lundberg >wrote: > > > Then > > > again, trolls. > > > Trolls? > What Ofir Balas was talking about. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Rob Til Freedmen < >

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-31 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Emil Lundberg wrote: > I agree that tags would be cool but I don't see a real need for it, "yaourt > We have them already - just look at the AUR packages page. They are part of the web search interface - 'search in category' - but doesn't work as expected. > "

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-31 Thread Emil Lundberg
I agree that tags would be cool but I don't see a real need for it, "yaourt " is usually good enough for me. I think that if tags were to be added it would make sense to make it a feature provided by the AUR web interface rather than the packages themselves, so the tags could be edited in a Wiki/St

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:51:59PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Free

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Stuewe
On 2013-07-30 15:40, Ofir Balas wrote: I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. Perhaps, and that's one of the downsides of tagging. My point was really that setting a category is a piece of cake for a maintainer to do. It takes about three second

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
I feel like a free for all tag system would end with a bunch of trolls spamming the AUR. On Jul 30, 2013 9:34 PM, "Sam Stuewe" wrote: > On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote: > >> The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal >>> regarding categories, >>> but should be cons

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Sam Stuewe
On 2013-07-30 14:47, Dave Reisner wrote: The current search interface might be insufficient and not optimal regarding categories, but should be consistent and predictably - which it isn't now. I tend to agree with the consensus that categories are meaningless, unmaintainable crap. I rather fit

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:51:59PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > > wrote: > > > > There are still >1000 packages without

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > > > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > > > - apparently not a hot topic. > > > > I think most of these p

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Reisner
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:15:06PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > > - apparently not a hot topic. > > I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD > using burp or a simi

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: > I think descriptions and dependencies include the required information > in almost every case. > Searching in a pool of >4 packages naturally leads to using a category in which to search for, doesn't it? And packages without category woul

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
I think tags would be cool but really not worth the effort. Like Dan said, descriptions are king. On Jul 30, 2013 7:17 PM, "Daniel Micay" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky > wrote: > > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > >> There are still >1000 packages w

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: >> There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' >> - apparently not a hot topic. > > I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD > using burp or a similar AUR upl

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Ofir Balas
The only really interesting category imo is the games one. And even that is mostly pointless. Who really searches the AUR by category after all. On Jul 30, 2013 7:01 PM, "Daniel Micay" wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rob Til Freedmen > wrote: > > There are still >1000 packages without

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 30 July 2013 19:56, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > - apparently not a hot topic. I think most of these packages are created by uploading the PKGBUILD using burp or a similar AUR uploader. If the categories were to stay [1], it would be good if the

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Daniel Micay
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: > There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' > - apparently not a hot topic. > > Maybe we add another line to Statistics on the AUR front page just to > let users know of packages not found by the package search function > - unless se

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-07-30 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
There are still >1000 packages without 'Category' - apparently not a hot topic. Maybe we add another line to Statistics on the AUR front page just to let users know of packages not found by the package search function - unless searched by using 'Category=All', clicked on 'Category' and reading all

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-27 Thread John D Jones III
On 06/26/2013 10:46 AM, Rob Til Freedmen wrote: There are 828 packages from 299 maintainers where category is set to 'none' - another 209 packages are orphaned. orphan - Buce https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?C=1&PP=250&SB=m&SO=a&O=0 buhman - gtmanfred https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?C=1&

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread Jakub Klinkovský
On 26.06.13 at 23:50, Keshav Padram wrote: > On 26 June 2013 23:18, chillermillerlong wrote: > > > I guess this is caused by uploading new packages using the burp tool. > > I'll fix my packages in a little bit. I'm chenxiaolong on the AUR. > > > > > burp has the option "-c" to specify the categor

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread Keshav Padram
On 26 June 2013 23:18, chillermillerlong wrote: > I guess this is caused by uploading new packages using the burp tool. > I'll fix my packages in a little bit. I'm chenxiaolong on the AUR. > > burp has the option "-c" to specify the category like "burp -c system". Best Regards. Keshav Padram

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread Diego Principe
message > From: Diego Principe > Date: 06/26/2013 13:44 (GMT-05:00) > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" < > aur-general@archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] packages without category > > Ok, I'll fix my packages. > I'

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread chillermillerlong
iscussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" Subject: Re: [aur-general] packages without category Ok, I'll fix my packages. I'm "Diego" on AUR *Diego* 2013/6/26 Rob Til Freedmen > There are 828 packages from 299 maintainers where category is set to 'none&#x

Re: [aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread Diego Principe
Ok, I'll fix my packages. I'm "Diego" on AUR *Diego* 2013/6/26 Rob Til Freedmen > There are 828 packages from 299 maintainers where category is set to 'none' > - another 209 packages are orphaned. > > orphan - Buce > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?C=1&PP=250&SB=m&SO=a&O=0 > > buhman - gtma

[aur-general] packages without category

2013-06-26 Thread Rob Til Freedmen
There are 828 packages from 299 maintainers where category is set to 'none' - another 209 packages are orphaned. orphan - Buce https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?C=1&PP=250&SB=m&SO=a&O=0 buhman - gtmanfred https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?C=1&PP=250&SB=m&SO=a&O=250 gtmanfred - Perberos https