[maemo-developers] Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Neil Jerram <neiljerram at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Agree with all that.  However, if "Programming" is a better English
> term than "Development" - which I agree with - surely the section name
> should be "users/programming"?

Why, though? The "technical English" keys better map to upstream.
There's no reason we *can't* change it, but what's the advantage? The
main point I'm trying to get across is that the English translation is
no more special than any other language.

`user/multimedia' shouldn't be `user/sound_and_video', after all.

In fact, I'd be relatively happy with `user/0001', `user/0002',
`user/0003', ...: the main point of this suggestion is to ensure that
it handles all the possible use cases; the i18n representations of
those keys then become important; the keys themselves can be entirely
arbitrary.

Cheers,

Andrew

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