Re: Renaming 'math' section 'science'

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Tom Lear <tom@trap.mountain-view.ca.us> writes:

> I like this idea, but what about things like perl interfaces to databases.
> Should they go in databases or interpreters (interpreters/perl)? or should
> they go in both.  And then things get really ugly.

We've had threads about all this before, though I'm not sure we
reached a conclusion.

One other option to consider would be to store all the packages in one
tree with paths like:

  packages/a/p/apcalc*.deb
  packages/e/m/emacs20*.deb

And then have a new field in the packages like this:

  Package: perl-database-interface
  Sections: interpreter/perl, database

etc...

The tree containing all the user navigable directories (which is only
relevant for those browsing ftp) could be generated automatically with
symlinks.

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