From 602e521bd8687423c6cbaaf9dac98c2c32ddaa34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anderson Torres Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 23:26:41 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] add argument for usefulness of categorization --- rfcs/0146-meta-categories.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/rfcs/0146-meta-categories.md b/rfcs/0146-meta-categories.md index 2769ea1..0cf5144 100755 --- a/rfcs/0146-meta-categories.md +++ b/rfcs/0146-meta-categories.md @@ -220,6 +220,13 @@ The most immediate drawbacks are: are doing this just fine for years on end, and Nixpkgs can imitate them easily - and even better, given we have Nix language machinery available. + - Categorization is useful in many scenarios and use cases - indeed they + are ubiquitous in software world: + - specialized search engines as Repology + - code forges, from Sourceforge to Gitlab + - as said above, software collections from pkgsrc to slackbuilds + - to organization and preservation + # Unresolved questions [unresolved]: #unresolved-questions