Re: Packaging system improvements

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> It seems to me that the proposed "Keywords:" field is supposed to
> help organize the distribition, but the "Section:" field is already
> doing this.  The current sections divide the distribution by category
> already, without the need for any new field.

"Section:" only organizes is one category.  This is not sufficient.
Providing a keyword list will allow people to better chose what they
want to see in the package selection list.  The current package list
is already too big to handle with just sections and it's going to
get worse.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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