Package: general Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-22 Severity: important
The current sections layout in Debian is mostly useless due to the large size of the package database (in woody +- 9000, in potato +- 4500). This is due to sections not being refined enough (we have not changed them in the last four years IIRC), thus any package administration interface is useless for browsing packages since there are too many packages per section. As a suggestion, I would use the layout used by either the current Menu system, the GNOME or KDE proyect for the layout of applications together with some of our "special" sections (base). Some samples of how sections could be divided: admin - system, configuration, package system, security, accounting (logs) comm - modem, fax, devel - languages, libraries, compiler, kernel-source doc - convertors, guides, manpages, admin-doc, devel-doc, games-doc,... editors - emacs, games - adventure, arcade, board, tetris, simulation graphics - themes, video, diagrams, postscript/pdf, viewers, interpreters - perl, tcltk, python, mail - client, server, transport math - spreadsheet, calculator misc net - http, ftp, news, telnet, irc, utils, samba, ppp, printer, firewall, nfs, dns, finger, proxies news -> should be moved to net science - astronomy, biology, chemistry sound - drivers, players, midi, -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux avalon 2.4.18 #1 SMP mié abr 3 12:47:49 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=spanish, LC_CTYPE=spanish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
