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Ciaran McCreesh posted on Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:02:58 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 00:04:08 +0000 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Ciaran McCreesh: |
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>> > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:33:27 -0700 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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>> > wrote: |
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>> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags |
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>> > And do what with them? Right now this is a solution without a |
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>> > problem. |
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>> Finding packages. Descriptions are not consistent, categories too |
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>> generic. |
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> Please explain, with examples, how tags will help with this. |
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One classic example in such discussions is kde's kmail and gnome's |
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evolution. |
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A package can have only one category so for these, the packager must |
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choose either the appropriate DE category (as with kde-base/kmail) and |
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leave it unlisted in the appropriate functionality category |
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(mail-client), or alternatively, choose the appropriate functionality |
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category (as with mail-client/evolution), and leave it unlisted under the |
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appropriate DE (gnome-base I guess it'd be, since the evolution modules |
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are in gnome-extra). |
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But that limitation goes away with tags as a package could have as many |
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tags as people found appropriate, so whatever category the packager |
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chooses, it could have both tags and thus be discoverable in either spot. |
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That does imply that at least one set of tags would correspond roughly to |
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categories, tho a single kde tag for example, vs kde-base and kde-misc, |
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would arguably suffice. But tags wouldn't need to be limited to |
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categories... |
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The glep should probably be expanded with several examples like that. |
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(Tho don't construe this to say that I'm in favor of the idea. I'm |
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neutral in general tho slightly negative as I think there are better ways |
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to spend one's time, but gentoo is volunteers, and volunteers spend more |
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time when they're motivated, so it's not a zero-sum game and if enough |
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people are interested enough to drive it forward, go for it!) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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