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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tags (Was: RFC: split up media-sound/ category)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:54:51
Message-Id: 20110624075104.13ce1c7e@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tags (Was: RFC: split up media-sound/ category) by Wyatt Epp
1 On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:07:50 -0400
2 Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:14, Ciaran McCreesh
4 > <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > First: how do tags relate to categories? Are they independent, a
6 > > refinement or a replacement?
7 >
8 > I would suggest they be a replacement because categories are just an
9 > overly limited subset of a proper tagging scheme.
10
11 If you abolish categories in favour of tags, but tags don't uniquely
12 identify a package, how do you uniquely identify a package?
13
14 Remember that your solution has to work with overlays and with tags
15 being changed after a package is installed.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tags (Was: RFC: split up media-sound/ category) Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com>