On 2019-10-19 00:28, Simon Lees wrote:
It does sound simple until you look at the fact that what we have for current groups is a bit of a mess. For some things in the past we have had groups that are two fine grain, so you might find one piece of software in one group, but another similar piece of software that you'd expect to be in the same group in a different group.
Well, that exactly was the problem with taking the whole Group: value as categorization; Richard put some examples of these [1], e.g.: Why the hell is a gnome-calculator considered Productivity/Scientific/Math and gedit is Productivity/Text/Editors but most of the other GNOME apps are System/GUI/GNOME? [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2019-10/msg00117.html But when treating each '/'-separated part as tag values, then it would most already look much better: - gnome-calculator = Productivity || Scientific || Math - gedit = Productivity || Text || Editors Obviously, some "neutral" values like "Other" do not make too much sense for a tag. And: nobody on this list ever claimed that the current Group: values are perfect, so any direction we go, there will be some adaption necessary.
[...] it would at this point be better to start from scratch.
... or look a bit outside the openSUSE world: I don't remember if already mentioned this, but I find the way the *CYGWIN installer* presents the packages in categories very useful. A package appears in several categorizations there - I don't know if they call it "tags" there. And even basic packages like the cygwin-dll or coreutils appears there in a reasonable way. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org