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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:10:24
Message-Id: 8b4c83ad0902081010u3153f057xf2b193a516d4df5e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) by Federico Ferri
1 On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Federico Ferri <mescalinum@g.o> wrote:
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5 > Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
6 >> ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/ksudoku -> ../../../kde-base/ksudoku
7 >> ${PORTDIR}/tags/games/puzzles/sudoku/ksudoku ->
8 > ../../../../kde-base/ksudoku
9 >> ${PORTDIR}/tags/dying/amarok -> ../media-sound/amarok
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12 >
13 > I like the tag idea.
14 > I don't like tag as described above.
15 > I feel having tags organized in hierarchical way is inappropriate.
16 > that just makes another organization of packages in categories.
17
18 KDE and OLPC are looking towards hierarchical tags as the future of
19 content management. People don't really use folders, they use tags:
20
21 "Holidays" > "2008" > "Switzerland"
22 "Open Source" > "Gentoo" > "portage"
23
24 >
25 > tags <-> packages is a many-to-many relation.
26
27 Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many?
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30 --
31 ~Nirbheek Chauhan

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) Federico Ferri <mescalinum@g.o>