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On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 20:11 Mon 04 Feb , Jonas Bernoulli wrote: |
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> > Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just fulfill |
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> > different purposes. Tags can not replace categories but might be a |
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> > useful extension to categories for the tasks I described, not more not |
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> > less. They are not better or worse, just different:) |
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> Why don't you think they can replace categories? |
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Quick answer: Because there are packages with the same name in |
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different categories. How would tags deal with that? |
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Long answer: Well maybe there is a way. But I think that it would |
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probably take a long time to make such a change. Technically tags |
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could probably replace categories but then their would be no definite |
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"full" name for that package anymore. |
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Someone calls it foo/app and someone bar/app, and since there is also |
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fuu/app which is a different application but with the same name, |
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nobody would no for sure about package is being taked about without |
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checking if his beloved foo/app is the same as bar/app the other guy |
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is talking about. Also how do you sort the packages in the tree? all |
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in one directory?! every package in the directories of each tag it |
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belongs to using hardlinks? |
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-- Jonas |
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