Re: [PROPOSED] moving the menu hierarchy into debian policy
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:06:11PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> When I started to use Debian, I wondered why the menu sections
> were different categories than the packages sections.
The package sections are a flat list for ftp archive purposes for all Debian
packages.
The menu system is a hierarchical tree (not too deep though) for the end
user applications only.
Those are three differences, structure, purpose and scope. Enough reason not
to mix them or try to unite them.
Marcus
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