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From: Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are tags just sets?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:34:49
Message-Id: BANLkTikvPEKDQ7qV1LrPbbEEXn5yagg9Tw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Are tags just sets? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:02, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > Here's a completely different way of doing tags:
4 >
5 You know, that's not a bad way of going about it. Truth be told, I
6 had sort of forgotten sets exists because they're a bit cumbersome at
7 the moment. But it's cheap and dead simple and gets us our 90%
8 immediately. Actually, it gets 100%, even, if you can include a set
9 as part of another set (implication) and symlinks function as aliases.
10 Very clever; I like it.
11
12 > where eapi has to be on the first line.
13 >
14 Looks fine but just to be clear, why is having the eapi necessary?
15
16 > Second, make a bunch of sets named kde-tag, editors-tag, xml-tag,
17 > monkeys-tag etc.
18 >
19 Don't even need the "-tag" part, really. But yes, a couple hundred
20 sets are in order. And some tool-glue.
21
22 > Disadvantages: doesn't use some horribly convoluted system of XML,
23 > wikis and web 2.0.
24 >
25 That's not a disadvantage at all. Thank you for noticing the third path.
26
27 While I still don't really believe categories to be necessary, this
28 will be a fine intermediate step.
29
30 Cheers,
31 Wyatt