Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:50:21 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Also, I have a feeling that users won't all agree how to classify
> > packages.  I expect there will be overlapping categories that make sense.
> > So I think we need to make provision for having one package
> > that fits into multiple categories.  Perhaps by asking the user
> > which category to think of this package in.
> > [...]
> 
> 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.