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 1LWEPA-0000Z0-J4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:29:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D30EE046B; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from swip.net (mailfe11.tele2.it [212.247.155.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21457E046B for ; Sun, 8 Feb 2009 18:29:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=EOE7Y5XTp7wA:10 a=We-_XJQlK_8A:10 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=-TNVetIMXgxg1aPBWPkA:9 a=wHE-O-v-r6u2THMpIUMA:7 a=hsqgKb2vMKukhpG3kPk0ZWPOT7sA:4 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Received: from [93.149.166.227] (account cxu-8de-gew@tele2.it HELO [192.168.1.29]) by mailfe11.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.6) with ESMTPA id 1020475831 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:29:16 +0100 Message-ID: <498F247B.7080700@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:29:15 +0100 From: Federico Ferri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090104) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Category tags on packages (was: new categories:) References: <84250c9c0902010932m539beba1v19fac18fde4569d9@mail.gmail.com> <49876289.20306@gentoo.org> <200902022310.27612.reavertm@poczta.fm> <1233623862.31569.20.camel@localhost> <8b4c83ad0902021849l2b856146h37c4ac91be3693f6@mail.gmail.com> <498F1D93.3080909@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad0902081010u3153f057xf2b193a516d4df5e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0902081010u3153f057xf2b193a516d4df5e@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 162772c0-86e0-48b8-a32f-c59918d4ff97 X-Archives-Hash: a35b3122c0d360be40bf710b3b5ac4ff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmPJHsACgkQV/B5axfzrPtbpACfcq8qpQdkneWplS8H3XgEiry1 1qUAoKZcMUGDyro8nHwrSvNwflm0nyGn =PV0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----