On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 05:09:45AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I curate my own dir file carefully, and I think some GNU/Linux systems > do so as well. The one I'm looking at, some Gentoo GNU/Linux system, > seems to have a fairly useful one. Do you have a example of a messy > dir file?
I am on a debian testing and my dir is somewhat messy, there are many similar categories that are not well grouped, for example: Compression * Gzip: (gzip). General (de)compression of files (lzw). Data Compression * Lzip: (lzip). LZMA lossless data compressor > > This TODO entry seems to me to be still relevant. But first it seems > to me that the categories in util/dir-example do not match the categories > in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Category/All. > > Is that a good idea that they should match? The two have different > purposes, I think. I have no idea on that matter, but it was what was used at the time the categories were put in util/dir-example, unless I misinterpreted the informations. If it is unclear that this is the right source for cactegories, it should be said more clearly, in particular at the beginning of of util/dir-example, there is: rms suggested that we follow the categories of the Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) where possible, including `minimal' capitalization, that is, just the first word and proper nouns. -- Pat
