Package categories are being misused

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IMHO, the application manager/package categories should match the 
Project Cloud categories, at a minimum... 

Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 9:12 PM, Jussi Kukkonen <jhkukkon at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>   
>> A) These packages have their own private category (and they shouldn't).
>>   canola2:        Canola       (how about Multimedia)
>>     
>
> Sorry, this was a last minute mistake :-/
>
>
>   
>> B) These packages look like they should be dependencies and not visible
>>
>>   python* (most packages at least)
>>   libgnokii3
>>   libuiw
>>   libmpd0
>>   videocenter-ci-plugins-base
>>   videocenter-plugins
>>   vc-epg-widget
>>     
>
> Not to mention packages like http servers, php, php-services... (are
> those really used with the device? Really, people complained a lot
> about things like canola-conf/web-ui, would someone use such servers
> on maemo or are they just there because it's easy to port)
>
>
> One thing that is still unclear to me is how we could improve things like:
>   - language packs for individual programs
>   - program plugins
>
> Canola2 still provides no extra languages or plugins, but our arch is
> meant for that, so we should get them soon, but we have this already
> with gaim/pigidin and some others.
>
>   

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Always, Dr Fred C
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