Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:22:31 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > [...] 
> >> Let the package author choose and, and only one category, and any number
> >> of tags he/she wants to use to describe the package.
> >
> > That might be possible for some specialized packages, but not forf all
> > of them.
> 
> >> When a user installs a package from a package archive, the category
> >> chosen by the author is presented as the default choice, and can be
> >> overridden by the user.
> >
> > If the category is not fixed, I'm not sure I see the utility of having
> > such categories at all in the custom file.
> 
> My idea about the category was to use it for grouping things into
> "topical files" inside emacs.d. Consider the following, fictional,
> example:

Thanks, but I think we may be miscommunicating.  A package can belong
to more than one category -- what do you propose to do in that case?