| 1 |
On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> Sounds like what you really want are tags, not categories ... |
| 4 |
|
| 5 |
Yes and no. tags would definitely be better than subcategories. But |
| 6 |
for some packages a new category would probably still make sense like |
| 7 |
app-scm ( http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg27404.html). |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
> You could play with adding them into metadata.xml and patching some |
| 10 |
> existing search tools to search for them. |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
Added to my TODO list. Extending existing search tool would only be a |
| 13 |
first step however. The ability to exclude/include packages from the |
| 14 |
tree would also be a useful feature (and that doesn't seam to fit the |
| 15 |
design of the tools I have used). |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
> I'm all for the idea of tags, |
| 18 |
> and I think it's a better approach than categories. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just fulfill |
| 21 |
different purposes. Tags can not replace categories but might be a |
| 22 |
useful extension to categories for the tasks I described, not more not |
| 23 |
less. They are not better or worse, just different:) |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
-- Jonas |
| 26 |
-- |
| 27 |
gentoo-dev@l.g.o mailing list |
Archives