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On 18:35 Mon 04 Feb , Jonas Bernoulli wrote: |
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> So I ask you: why are there no such categories? Of course I can |
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> imagine a few reasons myself for not having more categories: |
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> (1) a category must in general include n packages |
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> (2) more categories are evil, once we start creating new once there is no end |
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> (3) moving packages in the tree is bad, things break |
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> (4) who does all the work |
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> (5) subcategories would be better, but to implement this... |
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> .... |
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> Please point me to any discussions on this subject. Keep in mind I am |
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> not demanding new categories, I am not even asking for them to be |
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> created. I simply would like to know why there aren't more. And if you |
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> developers are also interested in more categories I would love to make |
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> some suggestions and help with looking through the tree to see which |
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> packages would have to be moved. |
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> Reasons why more categories might be usefull: |
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Sounds like what you really want are tags, not categories ... |
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You could play with adding them into metadata.xml and patching some |
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existing search tools to search for them. I'm all for the idea of tags, |
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and I think it's a better approach than categories. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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