[maemo-developers] [RFC] Maemo package guidelines: mandatory categories

[From: Simon Pickering]

> > user/accessories    Accessories
> > user/communication  Communication
> > user/games          Games
> > user/multimedia     Multimedia
> > user/office         Office
> > user/other          Other
> > user/programming    Programming
> > user/support        Support
> > user/themes         Themes
> > user/tools          Tools
> >
> 
> Do we need more categories? I think this is not enough for 
> all applications.
> 
> >
> > in your control information. If you want to put it into 
> "Ringtones" (which
> > is not pre-defined), use
> >
> > Section: user/Ringtones
> >
> 
> I think this is bad. This is how we ended up with the mess we 
> are in now.
> 

Can the Debian system support multiple sub-categories? E.g.
user/multimedia/Ringtones

Would the package manager work with this? It seems like a cleaner way of
separating out the packages to me. Or is there some limitation to the depth
of the categories and/or way it's supposed/allowed to be used?

Cheers,


Simon