| 1 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
| 2 |
Hash: SHA512 |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
Ciaran McCreesh: |
| 5 |
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:46:49 -0400 Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com> |
| 6 |
> wrote: |
| 7 |
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
| 8 |
>> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
| 9 |
>>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 03:53:47 +0100 yac <yac@g.o> wrote: |
| 10 |
>>>> What I was describing is the difference between fundamental |
| 11 |
>>>> properties of categories and tags. |
| 12 |
>>> |
| 13 |
>>> You are trying to redefine categories in terms of a concept |
| 14 |
>>> that they didn't originally represent. |
| 15 |
>> |
| 16 |
>> No one's redefining anything. You seem awfully fixated on the |
| 17 |
>> history that forced categories to exist, which doesn't really |
| 18 |
>> matter in this context. Regardless of any of that, people can |
| 19 |
>> and _do_ attempt to use categories as a rudimentary method of |
| 20 |
>> attempting to search for packages. |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> "Giving something a unique unambiguous name" is not a historical |
| 23 |
> issue. It's something we still need, and a core part of how package |
| 24 |
> manglers work. You can't just pretend that categories there for |
| 25 |
> exactly this. |
| 26 |
> |
| 27 |
>>> From a package mangler perspective, categories aren't just "a |
| 28 |
>>> label" for a package. They're fundamentally part of a package's |
| 29 |
>>> name. |
| 30 |
>>> |
| 31 |
>> From that standpoint, they're even less adequate for lookup; |
| 32 |
>> encoding metadata in names has never turned out well for anyone. |
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> Things still need a unique unambiguous name. It's that or GUIDs... |
| 35 |
> |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
derailed. |
| 38 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| 39 |
|
| 40 |
iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJTNdltXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w |
| 41 |
ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQzMDlCNDQ4NjEyNDI4NjA5REVEMDI3MzIy |
| 42 |
MjBDRDFDNUJERUVEMDIwAAoJECIM0cW97tAgBeoP/A2f7vHUF3eueeeUsbr7tWIT |
| 43 |
z9mURgUl7fKsH7ZQ3cHeEqtL4dDWKmM6XRXuCpRgLK7zMQ1AqFiZSoFOMHCgySs2 |
| 44 |
TWCpZpTEJQfX6KFbyxuF5Y8GUk8nj0UdfOoYRjOUxlqaNyTG95ZaTKTkTM11EbW1 |
| 45 |
ER7Tpwj7bJeuKEaHWesPF5zXkzPaZxgu8UDwTu6jYSr0KMpw6GeoEuHiL4lBoXNk |
| 46 |
LbKWyt0tDIy4U74U1R68U8yFjwkmvUdIdF8khHO77B3/EDn8/V8fwETkkxhh3YZ3 |
| 47 |
UHTAZFT7/OKkz3XdycXpbbKUn0aPCSev4/W2QY77ZICL6E6NK1zFAWHIrYO+jJQu |
| 48 |
jfP0/iZUpmZPpZbwofjbQgqa6jOtgfQdhP5AXQneApzocf74OoV/1/zbSHpyGIII |
| 49 |
SiYb/CNrOU4TDDZo0/+8xcc1GFIBlELy4bpa+UwpGBGqF0KYrt9G1kwVK7YBvo1I |
| 50 |
vpbQb/8wIF1HBg97JbbPsTPIYGcMMR7UZ/FcoKQoe5FQ6A6uyCqQRWqR8DYCRqoJ |
| 51 |
6lOpsEwGcOnJzNOfAP2nmdE0ZOT0Fg+M4mBIdksNBb12i4MVi+q0BPTxxpS7wLnc |
| 52 |
dlA2Ix97y3YPqzBIw9l0593e2abSjmdboIRu6I5duy8zJ/OE8YX8scOnNRZWYBSK |
| 53 |
9HC8Mt4Hi1yJiv2oYeEA |
| 54 |
=ygQ2 |
| 55 |
-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
Archives