The future of the 'uncategorized' category

[prettyboymp]

Is there any plan for removing the 'Uncategorized' category, or at least removing its requirement? Some users want the ability to only show the_category() when the post is part of a real category. Also, with the introduction of custom taxonomies in 2.9, not all hierarchical taxonomies will have a default term, so this flexibility needs to be introduced anyway.

I'm curious why the default category was introduced in the first place? Was it solely for permalink handling?

If attachment:ticket:10122:hierarchical_metaboxes-2.patch​ is accepted (specifically handling hierarchical taxonomies as int) the following just needs to be added above the checkbox list to allow deselecting of all terms from the taxonomy:

<input type="hidden" name="tax_input[<?php echo $taxonomy?>]" value="" /> 

[ryan]

It was introduced for permalinks, IIRC. I would love to make it optional. Many themes are coded to assume there will be one, however.

[scribu]

It's not present in custom hierarchical taxonomies, which is good.

[filosofo]

It makes sense but would involve a significant change in behavior for get_permalink()

[solarissmoke]

Related/duplicate: #14901

[chriscct7]

I'm going to say this will probably never, or at least not in the near future be up for removal (given its 5 years later and its still there). As this is more of a question, and there's nothing to implement, closing as invalid