On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:55:01PM -0500, Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu wrote: > Several months ago, I added support for better > package classification to aptitude. To try it out, > select "Browse Packages By Category" from the Views menu. > (this uses a different, experimental display mode -- use the "hier" grouping policy to see it in the normal expandable tree style) > > The idea is quite similar to your suggestion, except that: > > (a) It is hierarchical, so the number of items on the screen > at any one time is manageable. > (b) It uses external datafiles, so we don't have to change > the archive, and you can (theoretically) use this is ok for this hack, but not a real solution. We need IMHO a real central datafile (like/in the Packages file) for all package managers. And If your datafile include Descriptions, this Desctiption will never translated... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux Linux - the choice of a GNU generation
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