FS#29479 - Categories support for Pacman/Makepkg/or the respective related
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Pacman
Opened by Pablo Lezaeta (Jristz) - Sunday, 15 April 2012, 23:12 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 April 2012, 12:11 GMT
Opened by Pablo Lezaeta (Jristz) - Sunday, 15 April 2012, 23:12 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 22 April 2012, 12:11 GMT
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Summary and Info:
Support of categories in pacman, like wm or laptop... If you want to install package xxx just type pacman -S xxx, but if you don't know package name but you want some stuff for laptops just browse pacman -option app-laptop catagory. Steps to Reproduce: search for firmware and see that not all firmware ar chowed or search for laptop apps like the example maybe look like Pacman -S --app laptop and display all related do laprop like drivers (ip220-fw) firmware (buez-firmware) and oters (laptop-mode-tools powerdown) other form is a GOOS gouping management not only X11 gnome, more than X11 part of video and digicam KDE part of video....this can help in searching for a package |
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 22 April 2012, 12:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: FS#7132
Sunday, 22 April 2012, 12:11 GMT
Reason for closing: Duplicate
Additional comments about closing: FS#7132
We also have a wiki article that should help with the laptop part https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop
https://groups.google.com/group/chakra-devel/attach/e7ff26fa39c1f4f5/add_categories.patch?part=4&authuser=0
Edit: fixed link...
exaple> ip220/fw and ip2100/fw may ni base but not installed by default ok...
then both can in category firmware and/or laptop, this help peoples to find firmwares (in this case) for they machina
oter use cam by adding them for offimatic: the majority use libreoffice ok, but not nessesary know the existence of abiword and a category for this can help
bassicaly the idea is for the grat problem : the description not nessesary are acurated or show wht is the package, or searching a package fom a category that not know theyr name
and this pathc can by help...I not try now, but on weekend I test this
emacs: not show in IDE dev develop development
ekiga: search for IDe an ekiga is show in results
my idea """fix""" de bad descriptions, is more esasy fill category rathen that fill a decription tath fill all possibles and reals form to search a package and at the same thime maintain the decription
However, I do not see Arch Linux using them even if they get implemented in pacman. Packages used to be categorized, but that disappeared a long time ago... Much like the ChangeLogs.