Re: [gentoo-dev] Are tags just sets?

[Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:02, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Here's a completely different way of doing tags:
>
You know, that's not a bad way of going about it.  Truth be told, I
had sort of forgotten sets exists because they're a bit cumbersome at
the moment.  But it's cheap and dead simple and gets us our 90%
immediately.  Actually, it gets 100%, even, if you can include a set
as part of another set (implication) and symlinks function as aliases.
 Very clever; I like it.

> where eapi has to be on the first line.
>
Looks fine but just to be clear, why is having the eapi necessary?

> Second, make a bunch of sets named kde-tag, editors-tag, xml-tag,
> monkeys-tag etc.
>
Don't even need the "-tag" part, really.  But yes, a couple hundred
sets are in order.  And some tool-glue.

> Disadvantages: doesn't use some horribly convoluted system of XML,
> wikis and web 2.0.
>
That's not a disadvantage at all.  Thank you for noticing the third path.

While I still don't really believe categories to be necessary, this
will be a fine intermediate step.

Cheers,
Wyatt