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



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.

Thanks,
Marcus

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