El Martes 31 Mayo 2005 19:41, Mark Edgington escribió: > Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but I wonder if there > should be a tag in debian packages indicating the a minimum proficiency > level that a user should have in order for a package to be useful to the > user. > > For example, a package like OpenOffice or Firefox are end-user > applications which most users (even those completely unfamiliar with > linux) would have a good chance at understanding and being able to use. > On the other hand, a package like nmap might not be something my > Grandma would be wanting to use every day, and thus it might be better > to have a higher proficiency-level rating for such a package. > > The motivation for such a thing is that it would make it possible for > package-management tools to operate in an "easy" mode which would only > display (or display in a separate category) packages which have a > proficiency-rating < x. This would be very handy in that it would > permit using Debian and an apt frontend like synaptic to make it easy > for more-or-less "computer-illiterate" people to install new packages > which match their skill-level, without having to wade th > rough hundreds > of libraries and technical tools which they would never use. > > Perhaps there's a better way to accomplish this, but the ability to > limit the display of packages in this manner is something that it seems > would be beneficial to have. > > -Mark
I find it a quite interesting idea. If it was implemented, there should be an scale, so that maintainers have some reference in order to tag their packages. Something similar to: Firefox, OpenOffice, koffice, gxine - 100 Thunderbird, Kmail, Evolution - 95 Dia, Inkscape, Gimp, - 90 konsole, gnome-terminal - 50 Libraries - 0 Of course, such scale should be further discussed and studied than my fast-done one... Cesar
