From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:16:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2l0vas0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26462"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexander Adolf Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 16:19:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5cX-0006lI-MK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:19:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54854 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5cW-0000zb-Pg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5Z9-0006Cg-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5Z8-0002tW-SK; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4618 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kL5Z1-00034U-RP; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:16:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> (message from Alexander Adolf on Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:50:21 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256365 Archived-At: > From: Alexander Adolf > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:50:21 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Also, I have a feeling that users won't all agree how to classify > > packages. I expect there will be overlapping categories that make sense. > > So I think we need to make provision for having one package > > that fits into multiple categories. Perhaps by asking the user > > which category to think of this package in. > > [...] > > Let the package author choose and, and only one category, and any number > of tags he/she wants to use to describe the package. That might be possible for some specialized packages, but not forf all of them. > When a user installs a package from a package archive, the category > chosen by the author is presented as the default choice, and can be > overridden by the user. If the category is not fixed, I'm not sure I see the utility of having such categories at all in the custom file.