> While I regard the tags approach as very interesting I see no real > reason to stop using meta packages. Perhaps I should investigate
The tags approach IMHO does something different from tasks, and probably cannot and should not be used as replacement. Of course you could map task-membership to a tag, but i don't think that makes much sense. Tags describe certain "atomic" properties of packages - for example their subject being related to legal things - but there is no use for tags with just a few matches. I don't think it makes sense to say "install all packages with the tag xyz" (which will occassionally even conflict, like apache and apache-perl for example). Tags are currently designed for finding packages easier, not for quick-installation like tasks. Of course it might work surprisingly well to do such things... But i wouldn't restrict tags to be useable for this useage type. Greetings, Erich
