hscurses under wrong category

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jul 11 20:04:11 EDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:12 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Don Stewart wrote:
> 
> > v.dijk.bas:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
> >> "User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
> >> under "User Interfaces".
> >>
> >> Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
> >> category and remove the current one? That will make it more
> >> consistent.
> >
> > In general we need a way for trusted users to tag and categorise
> > packages. Restricting uploaded categories would also help in the
> > ontology sprawl.
> 
> I suggested that introduction of new categories should not be restricted, 
> but at least a warning and a question should be raised if you introduce a 
> new category, because it may only be the difference between "User 
> Interface" and "User-Interface". The downside is, that introducing new 
> categories in order to place "unique" packages is too tempting.

It is indeed already a warning.

Duncan



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