On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:15:45 +0200 Javier Fern <jfs@computer.org> wrote: > Users need a hierachical layout in order to find software. > Keyword by themselves are not that much useful since they would be > only appropiate to the language used. Several disadvantages: > > 1.- more difficult to translate than sections > 2.- are not organised hierarchicaly (sp?) > 3.- difficult to represent graphically in a package-administration gui > (sections are easily represented as trees). Agreed. However, there's no reason why one can't conceivably have more than on tree. The tasks system is kind of like that. In fact, it's arguable that if all packages belonged to at least one task, we would actually have a hybird keyword/category system. A package, gnome-calculator, could belong to the desktop task, the gnome task, and the desktop-calculators task. /me ponders... What's it take to get a new task? Just a matter of adding a Task: field? No other hoops? If that's the case, then maybe the original poster would like to come up with a relatively long list of "keywords" (really, just tasks). The aforementioned gnome-calculator task could appear as the following leaves in the tree: desktop-calculators/gnome gnome/desktop-calculators desktop/desktop-calculators Easy to present in a UI, and since a) the list of keywords (tasks) needn't be a very small number, and b) a package can belong to more than one task (have more than one keyword), it meets the original poster's request. -- ________________________________________________________________________ \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / eelf@sympatico.ca, elf@terrabox.com | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \======================================================================/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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