Re: Group by functionality or family? [WAS: Bug#187245: galeon-snapshot: idiotic section change]
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 00:09, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Where would you start looking for a music printing/editing package
> > that has no graphics frontend: sound, graphics, editors, text, or
> > misc?
>
> Well, I'd go to aptitude's categorical browser, scroll down to "sound
> and music", then pick "music notation", and there's lilypond and just
> one screen full of other stuff.
>
> Which I think, illistrates that these new archive sections are nothing
> more than a patch on a dead-end system. Maybe they'll keep it tottering
> along for a little while, but it's got no future.
Completely agreed.
I know there's been a ton of inconclusive discussion about different
systems for this in the past, but I think we really should at least pick
*something* and use it, even if it's not 100% clear it's the absolute
best thing.
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