On Thursday 2019-10-17 11:56, Richard Brown wrote:
On Wed, 2019-10-16 at 21:56 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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Jan, I went through the installed packages on my system here and looked casually at the list of packages and their assigned groups.
It led me to the following questions:
I have answered some of these Qs previously somewhere, but because that is loosely scattered, I will do so again here for the viewers' convenience. Packages can and do get reviewed and checked into Factory quickly, sometimes without me getting a chance to see it in time (this is not a bad thing, it just happens). As mentioned in the past too, if and when I am aware of it, something will be done about it.
what is discord doing in "Amusements/Games/Other"?
I can concur Games feels odd, but, it is my hypothesis the packager thought of Discord as a program similar to TeamSpeak, an application that is used as a sidechannel communication while gaming (gamers seem to shun in-game voice transmission implementations, if they even exist). Basically, this package suffered from the single-valuedness of old groups. Thank for your making me aware of this package - I will make a proposal to its submitter under the new tag scheme. (Discord also has that special place in :NonFree...)
why is xscreensaver in "Amusements/Toys"?
Hypothesis: Amusements/ is the antithesis to Productivity/. There is not much you can do during a screensaving moment ;-) Would you rather expect it in "graphics"?
Why is GNOME Builder not in "Development/Tools/IDE" but it's plugins are?
This is a result of the single-valuedness of groups and because, in that old limited framework, the maintainer decided to highlight the fact that it is a "gnome" component over "ide". I shall make a SR to propose both "gnome" and "ide".
Why is Archiving/Backup considered a subcategory of Productivity? Why is does Clustering have to do with Productivity? What is Networking doing under Producitivity?
Would you rather want to classify Archiving as a non-productive use (i.e. amusements) -- note this is a rhetoric question, I don't expect any answer. Amusements and Productivity, in my opinion, are purely separators in the classisc cheme. It is useless as a tag and does not appear in the new tag list. All Amusements/X/Y and Productivity/X/Y get reduced to X, Y (or better) when tags are made out of it.
Why are gstreamer codecs in Productivity/Multimedia/Other when half the codecs it uses are in Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Editors and Converters?
It shall be fixed..
Why is guvcview in Productivity/Multimedia/Video/Players when cheese is in Productivity/Multimedia/Other?
Though cheese plays video material, I do not think anyone would consider it a video player (as in, VLC, mplayer), since it is a webcam program.
What is IRC doing under Networking?
Rather than a question about a package's choice of some group, now this is one about the classic groups themselves. Maybe IRC was seen as a protocol the same way SMTP is. I would suggest not to try to understand the old hierarchy, just fixing it. Hold my beer.. I sure have replies to your other individual question, but I will cut the mail short here so that it gets out to the public faster. I will take your list into consideration and, now that I am aware of more unfitting values, make submissions and get it fixed, like I also said at a past date. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org