This has been mentioned earlier in bugs related to specific password managers, but I think it's worth having a parent bug - whether it is fixed or not. Most of the password managers are currently categorized as "app-admin". (See list below.) I think this is clearly wrong since a password manager is a personal tool, not a system administration tool. I suggest that we use "app-crypt". An (incomplete) list of current password managers in Gentoo: * app-admin/keepass * app-admin/lastpass-binary-component * app-admin/pass * app-admin/passwordsafe * app-admin/qtpass * app-crypt/ckpass * app-crypt/gorilla * app-misc/pwsafe * app-misc/tkpasman * x11-misc/revelation Reproducible: Always
I fully agree, that this is not ideal. The concept of categories is problematic. Say there is a kde-base/kde-passx, xfce-extra/xfce-passx or gnome-base/gnome-passx where will these go to? So there is no good solution. I think it is the best to leave it as it is and push the development of tags forward. This would enable us to tag also packages like dev-perl/File-KeePass dev-python/keepassx with "password manager" https://wiki.debian.org/Debtags But we can not work on this at the bug tracker. This should be discussed on the mailinglist.
