From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JM7a8-0008Q7-CN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:06:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5173BE0795; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CFCE0795 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACCD6567F for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:06:16 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new portage categories Message-ID: <20080204200616.GB3887@comet.science.oregonstate.edu> References: <92e3e00f0802040935j5414a163y3455c1e0c3cd7422@mail.gmail.com> <20080204184137.GA3887@comet.science.oregonstate.edu> <92e3e00f0802041111m3d838158gd9b6fbd7f7818d83@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <92e3e00f0802041111m3d838158gd9b6fbd7f7818d83@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 5a20561e-d470-4c61-a0c7-377dc1482f12 X-Archives-Hash: 541440b051230f8ed2a63cbff8f825ec 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? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list