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Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> I like the tag idea. I don't like tag as described above. I feel
>> having tags organized in hierarchical way is inappropriate. that
>> just makes another organization of packages in categories.
>
> KDE and OLPC are looking towards hierarchical tags as the future of
> content management. People don't really use folders, they use
> tags:
>
> "Holidays" > "2008" > "Switzerland" "Open Source" > "Gentoo" >
> "portage"
>
the above looks exactly like folders (unless you elaborate on that)
I don't know what KDE or OLPC are thinking. when I tag my stuff I'd
probably have:
photo001.jpg {2008,holidays,nature,switzerland}
photo002.jpg {2008,holidays,fun,switzerland,zurich}
photo158.jpg {2009,computer,me,misc}
(the order of tags here is alphabetical)
> tags <-> packages is a many-to-many relation.
>>
>> Aren't tags _made_ to be many-to-many?
>
> ie, symlinking can allow that kind of relationship
can you show an example (of many-2-many relation, with symlinks)?
Federico Ferri
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