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David Leverton wrote:
| This would leave tags as metadata, rather than part of the identity of
the
| package as categories are now.  There would need to be some other way to
| disambiguate between packages with the same upstream name (but categories
| suck for that anyway, because it assumes that the two packages won't
go in
| the same category, although it's plausible that there could be two
| dev-libs/libfoo or kde-misc/kbar).  I'm not sure what that would be,
exactly;
| the only thing that comes to mind is renaming one or both of the
packages,
| but that's pretty nasty, so if someone thinks of something better I'd
be all
| for it.

It should be pretty safe to assume that any two packages with the same
name would not fit in more than one category. There may be two packages
named sexy, but surely they both wouldn't share all 6 tags. Or even have
same number of tags.
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