-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ciaran McCreesh: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:46:49 -0400 Wyatt Epp <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 03:53:47 +0100 yac <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> What I was describing is the difference between fundamental >>>> properties of categories and tags. >>> >>> You are trying to redefine categories in terms of a concept >>> that they didn't originally represent. >> >> No one's redefining anything. You seem awfully fixated on the >> history that forced categories to exist, which doesn't really >> matter in this context. Regardless of any of that, people can >> and _do_ attempt to use categories as a rudimentary method of >> attempting to search for packages. > > "Giving something a unique unambiguous name" is not a historical > issue. It's something we still need, and a core part of how package > manglers work. You can't just pretend that categories there for > exactly this. > >>> From a package mangler perspective, categories aren't just "a >>> label" for a package. They're fundamentally part of a package's >>> name. >>> >> From that standpoint, they're even less adequate for lookup; >> encoding metadata in names has never turned out well for anyone. > > Things still need a unique unambiguous name. It's that or GUIDs... >
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