On 05/09/14 18:42, Nowaker wrote:
"pacman -Q --category=games" => pacman -Qs gamepacman -Ss game | grep -i openttd | wc -l 0 ;-)
Well sure. But I said it was never going to be as accurate as filtering by a specific category, so it will be easy to come up with any number of false positives/negatives.
Anyway, totally agree categories are bad. Tags on the other hand are cool. I'd really enjoy searching by tags. Description isn't a good place for listing all the features or use cases. Consider this: pacman -Ssx libvirt => show both libvirt, qemu, virt-manager, virtkick and opennebula pacman -Ssx storage => show bacula, dropbox, owncloud (even the webapp), glusterfs, ceph, zfs etc.
Tags would be no better or worse than categories or descriptions (or any other equivalent scheme). Like I said: the elephant in the room is the huge cost of categorization/tagging (or whatever). Without accurate meta-data, no prospective scheme is going to be any better than the current solution of simply searching for keywords in descriptions. (If a keyword can be missing from the description, it can just as easily be missing from the tags/categories).
