Re: Access software
On 29 Sep 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> I'd prefer to only create new sections which take a lot of packages.
> Deity, with a Keywords header, will better handle things like this.
Well, this one batch of source code that I'm working on has the capability
of generating ALOT of binaries, each customised for a particular type of
Braille soft terminal. The upstream author has not expressed any plans to
change the source so that most of the support (like speech emulation for
some of the terminals) features over to command-line switches, so for now
at least, they will remain compile-time options only. This means that I
could probably generate at least 8 deb packages from the original source
code.
I can understand how the consensus is to keep from having too many
categories of packages to convolute matters and confuse people, but I also
can see a few good points to at least adding Access as a category. Here
are a few:
* It would allow people who require such software to access Debian systems
to easily recognise and find what they need rather than hunting for it
or trying to figure out which keywords they think we would assign to
these types of packages.
* It would be a great "advertising" point since no other distribution that
I've found actually HAS access software prepackaged. I would think that
just having it as a visible category on the ftp site would be a good
start towards publicising this.
* After having a second person reply to this message, I'm beginning to
think that there will soon be more access software available (I was only
aware of this package before that e-mail). If this is the case,
shouldn't Debian silently encourage this by showing that not much exists
as is? I know it's a weird point, but... :)
I don't really want to argue with policy or your opinion at all. I'm just
trying to make it easier for both the maintainers and especially the users
of software like this. I feel it could be a great "selling" point for
Debian (we could be the first distribution to officially provide this kind
of thing) as well as attract more people who may be writing similar
software to make their products more available.
Another thing I feel that I must mention is that we currently have a
category or two that don't have more than a few packages in them
(electronics, namely). I know I'm new at this, but given your stance, I
have to question why electronics still exists as a category and why it
wasn't incorporated into "misc" or another category already.
Chris
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