Alec Warner wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Donnie Berkholz wrote:I actually object to having crap in dev-python, because things should be categorized functionally instead of by the language they're implemented in. 90% of the time you don't care about the language. But category moves are pretty much pointless, so I don't normally bring it up.Do you mean it is pointless because categories are pointless, or because it is not worth the trouble of doing the move? I assume we inherited the category idea from fbsd ports.It is pointless because we should probably have tags; not categories. It is akin to the Section[1] header in a debian control file. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections
Tags instead of categories . . . Now here's a very interesting idea, indeed. Has there ever been a proposal like this for Gentoo?
I think we could improve on the Debian way of doing (sub)sections And I think that a good system of tags would do better than most distros which have a fairly limited set of arbitrary categories (like desktop, system, utils; who knows what the heck those last two mean, anyway?) But blog-style multiple tags might be very, very nice, if we could agree on a set of tags to use, without trapping ourselves into some of the weirder categorization used by other distros, like Slackware's arcane alphabetic system.
Tags . . . I like the idea. I like it a lot. Thoughts? Exciting? Or is it an old issue, and I'm 5 years late to the party. :)
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