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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@...>
Subject: Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 23:40:20 +0530
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri <mescalinum@g.o> wrote:
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> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku -> ../../../kde-base/ksudoku
>> ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku ->
> ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku
>> ${PORTDIR}/tags/dying/amarok -> ../media-sound/amarok
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> - --
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> I like the tag idea.
> I don't like tag as described above.
> I feel having tags organized in hierarchical way is inappropriate.
> that just makes another organization of packages in categories.

KDE and OLPC are looking towards hierarchical tags as the future of
content management. People don't really use folders, they use tags:

"Holidays" > "2008" > "Switzerland"
"Open Source" > "Gentoo" > "portage"

>
> tags <-> packages is a many-to-many relation.

Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many?


-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan


Replies:
Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
-- Federico Ferri
Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
-- Nirbheek Chauhan
References:
new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)
-- Norberto Bensa
Re: new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)
-- Luca Barbato
Re: new categories: (was: Last Rites: games-puzzle/ksudoku)
-- Maciej Mrozowski
Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
-- Mart Raudsepp
Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
-- Nirbheek Chauhan
Re: Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
-- Federico Ferri
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