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On 14-03-24 10:25 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: |
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> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:36:19 +0100 |
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> Jan Matejka <yac@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Categories are essentially tags, only less powerful as they can |
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>> express relationship of 1:N while tags are can express M:N |
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> No, categories are essentially directories. |
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> I was asking about tags, not about categories. |
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> It appears it's very hard to answer the simple questions of why we need |
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> tags and how we would use them. The answers should typically involve |
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> some explanation of how you're going to use the things once you have |
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> them. |
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> jer |
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A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. |
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A trivial example, a user want to know all terminals available in |
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portage. Of course he could try a `emerge --searchdesc terminal`, but |
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then he would get anything mentioning terminal in the description: which |
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would probably include a lot of "terminal applications" which are not |
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terminals themselves... |
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`emerge --search terminal` just doesn't cut it as "konsole" wouldn't be |
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a result but is a terminal emulator... |
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On the other hand, terminals are spread through many categories |
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(gnome-terminal in gnome-base & konsole in kde-base to name the most |
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obvious example). |
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Thus tags are a nice way for user to find the applications they want. |
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Damien |
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