Pacnet - Gentoo like categories in Arch Linux!

finferflu · 2009-03-31 11:53:15

This is pretty cool indeed.

Anyway, I think I just spotted a misplaced item: http://pacnet.karbownicki.com/package/lxmenu-data/
I don't think the lxmenu-data package belongs to the games-rpg category.

trojkat · 2009-03-31 13:31:47

"If you noticed, that some of packages are in the wrong category, feel free to change it. Packages were categorized by script that searched for each package on gentoo-portage.com website, so there could be some mistakes due to names incompatibility between Arch Linux and Gentoo."

finferflu · 2009-03-31 13:41:29

Oops, I guess I should be doing some more reading before jumping to conclusions

trojkat · 2009-04-10 15:36:14

New API - http://pacnet.archlinux.pl/api/

and gPacnet - simple PyGTK API client - http://code.google.com/p/gpacnet/

Sorry, I have no experience in PyGTK ;-P Maybe someone can do it better.

Last edited by trojkat (2012-04-15 21:00:22)

Xilon · 2009-04-10 16:43:59

ibendiben wrote:

I think it's very usefull, it's a pitty such catagories aren't supported by pacman. There is a feature request though and I'd say it wouldn't be too difficult to implement

Indeed. It's a nice site, but wouldn't it have been better to put (less) effort into implementing categories at the libalpm level? It just seems like a roundabout way of getting this functionality.

trojkat wrote:

New API - http://pacnet.karbownicki.com/api/
and gPacnet - simple PyGTK API client - http://code.google.com/p/gpacnet/

Nice

tadzik · 2009-07-25 20:20:58

For those who would like to see CLI frontend, I wrote a simple one in perl, available here: http://github.com/tadzik/pacnet/tree/master. It requires perl-json-xs to work. Any creative criticism welcomed : )

zer4tul · 2009-08-02 15:57:13

Nice! Thanks for your work.

Cosmin · 2009-08-02 21:20:16

great work, I used gentoo a while ago so I like categorize packages and went back to gentoo portage site just to find some packages

Gen2ly · 2009-08-02 21:40:08

Yeah, I too like how Gentoo categorizes packages. Maintainers put a lot of thought of how to do so. I wouldn't mind seeing such categorizations done in Arch too.

trojkat · 2011-06-16 21:52:15

Pacnet is still here :-)

Main updates:
- new domain - pacnet.archlinux.pl (pacnet.karbownicki.com is still supported)
- code is update to Django 1.3
- update script is running on pyalpm & python 3
- all the code is now avaible at GitHub

Last edited by trojkat (2011-06-17 07:59:16)

sand_man · 2011-06-17 00:29:37

I've never seen this before. Cool stuff

lol I just saw a post from myself on the first page from a couple of years ago. I seriously don't remember.

Last edited by sand_man (2011-06-17 00:33:44)

tadzik · 2011-06-23 11:38:53

My CLI client is now on AUR, thanks to sirmacik. I reviewed the code a bit, and basing on the fact that mostly the ex-Gentoo users miss the categorization, I tuned the interface to be more eix-like. You can search packages with

pacnet games-strategy/
pacnet wesnoth
pacnet 'sdl$' # yep, a regexp

and get the results you want.
Feature requests and constructive criticism welcome.

trojkat · 2012-04-15 21:17:49

Little update:

- moving multiple packages (also using shift+click)
- description for each category

Jristz · 2012-04-15 23:14:51

Feature request for pacman that suppor categories https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do … k_id=29479

I LIKE this idea, make the hard job of search w no know the name more easy

ids1024 · 2015-01-03 06:42:24

Could you sync pacnet with new additions and deletion of packages? It look like this was last done in 2012.

I am using it to provide categories in a prototype of a community metadata database for packages. (See more in this thread.)

trojkat · 2015-01-04 09:42:56

@ids1024: Last update: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 09:17:50 +0000

Sorry, I had a break but my update script still works ^.^

Still TODO: sync pacnet categories with Gentoo Portage categories (i.e. add android-libs etc.)

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