Re: Type tags for Debian packages.
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 12:09:32PM +0100, Patrik Rak wrote:
> As more and more packages are added to Debian, I find it more and more
> difficult for ordinary users to navigate through the list of packages they
> would like to install.
[...]
> Therefore I propose that program categories of finer granularity than the
> one provided by current sections are chosen, and every package is assigned
> any number of such category tags (like sound/mixer or sound/mp3player to
> extend previous example) in its package control file.
Do check out the Trove project by ESR. It is meant
to organice Metalabs (aka Sunsite), and is very similar;
let's try to invent the same wheel.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/trove/
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