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From: "Tiziano Müller" <dev-zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category?
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 06:51:19
Message-Id: 1243407072.9837.148.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New app-eselect category? by Josh Saddler
1 Am Dienstag, den 26.05.2009, 17:00 -0700 schrieb Josh Saddler:
2 > AllenJB wrote:
3 > > I'd favor tags over increasing the category
4 > > levels, tho I'm not convinced either is necessary at the current time
5 > > (tho tags might make searching easier, in some ways).
6 >
7 > Heck yes! Tags are a good idea. The idea's been raised on -dev a few
8 > times. I suppose they're not (yet) essential, but from a user point of
9 > view, if the tools supported searching for tags buried in metadata.xml,
10 > it would make life much, much nicer.
11
12 And with the risk to repeat myself: herds can already been seen as tags.
13 So, my proposal still stands: change the current herds into teams and
14 write them in metadata.xml as such:
15
16 <maintainer>
17 <team>cpp</team>
18 </maintainer>
19
20 and then using <herd> as tags.
21
22 --
23 Tiziano Müller
24 Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member
25 Areas of responsibility:
26 Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor
27 E-Mail : dev-zero@g.o
28 GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30

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