Question How to Organize Local Packages?

So I have a lot of local packages I've created. And want them to show in the package manager under a common group.
It seems that any local package is always added under the "Custom" group.
Is there anyway to change that?

 

You could put the packages in another folder than the package folder and link them using the "from disk" option when clicking the "+" in the top left. Maybe that's what you are looking for?

 

I think there is no way without having them belong to a scoped registry

 

yeah I think so too

 

@CDF Actually no I just remembered, in your package.json try adding this field:

"author": {

"name": "Your Test Name",

"email": "test@test.com",

"url": "https://test.com"

},

If I remember correctly that should actually be enough.. I can't test right now though, please let me know if that worked!

As long as author name stays consistent they should stay grouped. I remembered I was dealing with exactly this a while back and I'm 99% sure author field was the key, not scoped registry.

See docs for more info: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-manifestPkg.html

 

yeah I've set the "author", "name", "email" and "url" on all my local packages.
They still show up under "Custom"

 

Found this site which also mentions packages are grouped by author name:
https://nagachiang.github.io/tutorial-working-with-custom-package-in-unity-2019-2/#



However, that's not what I'm seeing in 2021.1
I might try seeing how 2020.1 handles it. Maybe Unity has changed this recently