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Re: New sections? (was Re: StarOffice source to be GPL'ed)



On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 05:41:48PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 04:00:33PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> > I think we should think to organize sections from scratch. We have for
> > example X11 and net section, they are too general, too many packages
> > there...
> 
> It's not the first time this comes up, but a flat section table doesn't
> scale well and doesn't fit nicely.
> 
> Better would be scrap the sections (which have been used for ftp organizing
> but are obsolete when we have package pools) and use keywords.

Sections are also nice for UI purposes.
How would you select good set of keywords ?



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