Re: [devel] Another idea

Peter Vandenabeele writes:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:53:21AM +0100, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> [...]
>> 2. Pretty unusable.  The current Debian package Descriptions are
>>    not
>> usable for this purpose.  They're meant to be shown alongside the
>> package name, not instead of it.  I would personally like it
>> otherwise, as the package names are obviously not interesting to
>> the user, but it isn't the case.

> At this time, I see everything referenced by "package name" and it
> seems more logical to me to use this as main index in a listing
> (rather then "package Description").

The index that I would like most, is a tree looking something like
this: 

+ Office Tools
|-+ KOffice - Office Suite
| |-- KWord - Word Processor
| |-- KSpread - Spreadsheet
| |-- ... 
|
|-+ OpenOffice.Org - Office Suite
| |-- Writer - Word Processor
| |-- Calc - Spreadsheet
| |-- ...
|
+ Internet Programs
|...

Note: The structure can be worked out, the point is about the format
of the lines.

This needs two extra pieces of metadata about every pacakge in the
tree: ( UV stands for User Visible )

UVName ( something like "OpenOffice.Org" or "Writer" )
UVGenericName ( something like "Office Suite" or "Word Processor" )

And also the structure of the tree needs to be specified.

Also note that there doesn't necessarily have to be a direct
correspondence between this concept of Package, and the concept of a
real Debian Package ).

cheers
domi