list-packages: Marking packages as "uninteresting"?

[T.V. Raman]

Enabling users to add a tag would be the most flexible approach.

I am not a huge fan of categorization as a solution to all evils,
because it's basically a case of shoving things into drawers --
and then later not knowing what drawer you stuck it into. Emacs
with  incremental seach makes such things unnecessary:-) So if we
do categorize and collapse things based on catagorization, let's
implement that using invisibility specs since that works with
isearch --- so I wouldn't need to know if you stuck say
"org-mode" in the authoring drawer or the "gtd" drawer or
whatever, I'd just isearch for org and get it.
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On 5/17/12, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd personally much rather see efforts put toward collapsible package
>> categorization than simple filtering.
>
> As mentioned in an earlier message, I'd like to see such categorization
> added, indeed.  But note that what the OP asks for is slightly
> different, in that it depends on the user's own preferences.
>
> Maybe the categorization can reduce the need for the OP's feature.
> And of course, maybe the two can be merged by letting the user add her
> own categorization data (such as an "uninteresting" tag).
>
>
>         Stefan
>