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From: Federico Ferri <mescalinum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:)
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:29:20
Message-Id: 498F247B.7080700@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) by Nirbheek Chauhan
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4 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
5 >> I like the tag idea. I don't like tag as described above. I feel
6 >> having tags organized in hierarchical way is inappropriate. that
7 >> just makes another organization of packages in categories.
8 >
9 > KDE and OLPC are looking towards hierarchical tags as the future of
10 > content management. People don't really use folders, they use
11 > tags:
12 >
13 > "Holidays" > "2008" > "Switzerland" "Open Source" > "Gentoo" >
14 > "portage"
15 >
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17 the above looks exactly like folders (unless you elaborate on that)
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19 I don't know what KDE or OLPC are thinking. when I tag my stuff I'd
20 probably have:
21 photo001.jpg {2008,holidays,nature,switzerland}
22 photo002.jpg {2008,holidays,fun,switzerland,zurich}
23 photo158.jpg {2009,computer,me,misc}
24 (the order of tags here is alphabetical)
25
26 > tags <-> packages is a many-to-many relation.
27 >>
28 >> Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many?
29 >
30 > ie, symlinking can allow that kind of relationship
31
32 can you show an example (of many-2-many relation, with symlinks)?
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35 Federico Ferri
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) Angelo Arrifano <miknix@g.o>