-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:25:12 +0100 Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:36:19 +0100 > Jan Matejka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Categories are essentially tags, only less powerful as they can > > express relationship of 1:N while tags are can express M:N > > No, categories are essentially directories. fixed: categories are essentially also directories. same thing, 1:N relationship without symlinks and other misuse of filesystem. > I was asking about tags, not about categories. The original mails are: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:46:09 +0100 > Jeroen Roovers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:33:27 -0700 > > Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Package_Tags > > > > "This GLEP author would love to blight categories out of gentoo > > history as a giant mistake." > > > > Why? > > > > > > jer > Categories are essentially tags, only less powerful as they can > express relationship of 1:N while tags are can express M:N How is this a question about tags and not categories? > It appears it's very hard to answer the simple questions of why we > need tags and how we would use them. The answers should typically > involve some explanation of how you're going to use the things once > you have them. > > > jer > - -- Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021 6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTMSouAAoJEIN+7RD5ejaho4AH/1YFbArFwx6t8OoI8yrWCulA LDt5qBAcZiJoqV9H1V5YdNgcNiLDKIyTCPbkWc4obkgRuNVIJxFAe+duYRQydudW 6KKS2lYQXWSkbDRmJTWOt7BnerHyemvk6AluQn741a2uPZyUI//FPQL8fZkYlR6i 3HFFlW0dI6PHa/9Np8G+RBAs29e8qAR7QKQzDLd9BF/s+6KIK2/FO8pAgMdZBVKk jJ4Aq1AuRsqrdY0HO940Boiy0ylBFjxB27ej59UmjAzvyOMj9YRf1LqNkgMABENu ohEckguSryOpBjjD2ZaZrfMbbJTGqfVgz44nhT0s6Nbocb5RmVYp988GIwFQCg4= =1uIP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
