On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:56:43 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15:12 Wed 06 Feb , Alec Warner wrote: > > On 2/4/08, Jonas Bernoulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2/4/08, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 20:11 Mon 04 Feb , Jonas Bernoulli wrote: > > > > > Thinking about it again I would say tags and categories just > > > > > fulfill different purposes. Tags can not replace categories > > > > > but might be a useful extension to categories for the tasks I > > > > > described, not more not less. They are not better or worse, > > > > > just different:) > > > > > > > > Why don't you think they can replace categories? > > > > > > Quick answer: Because there are packages with the same name in > > > different categories. How would tags deal with that? > > > > Techincally you could enforce UNIQUE(pkg,[tags]), I agree thats a > > poor constraint though ;) > > I would probably print the ambiguous package name, with info on each > package, and a list of tags unique to each that could be used to > specify which one you want. Perhaps a numbered list too. That only works for the user interface, not so good for depend strings, config files and pretty much everything else. Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
