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. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
