From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QbJtP-0005AJ-Ao for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:02:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3B421C053 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03ADB1C021 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so2170277fxd.11 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:40:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dftnECReNchmIYSy/LL+KjYV4wti0b2THsk2G3068aU=; b=eL4Fb9vJNhata5Aq9sWYo2Esh+v+8jc/D5M32N/gXojCqiH+XDZ5dLnVP8B7p43C+S BRLFru/jGbtXm4QGhvpEOF8X4pHbSRpIY1w/tzVdOAdct1pPGuDt57CZ9vAGlYJx32HJ dAEqnpTwEj4CXkD7mwIk9nWbn4pIHF9MK8dvE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jx8NmvfhrnGofiq8S+ThztdygZKuF2QMukNeY2WPKtwe1xI8LN0npFrsPsZVQKd5yg UuZOPptlM4d7IHKC8gU/2WgjQbC38Y5T9jvd9b9qt7yujVUbBN3E8yZ5GaWkANIF+FpL O9s1wxZrRowuQhW4sDNPhWIq9ke4H5eZTLtPE= Received: by 10.223.83.1 with SMTP id d1mr9404725fal.139.1309210804105; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:40:04 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.79.10 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:39:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110626080257.12d523ef@googlemail.com> <201106261712.27665.reavertm@gmail.com> <20110627064924.499c488c@googlemail.com> From: Wyatt Epp Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:39:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are tags just sets? To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a3a2fa73958ce760d18a425bdc2f5bdd On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 17:23, Rich Freeman wrote: > That wasn't what I was thinking of. =C2=A0Package masking is also somethi= ng > we carefully control in the repository but users can override it FOR > THEIR OWN SYSTEMS. =C2=A0With tags I think that there were concepts > floating around of letting anybody influence how packages are tagged. > Ah yes, I think it was Jorge that mentioned that. And it's a good idea, too: it streamlines the patch process for tag updates and it gives us an idea of what sorts of things users find important for discovering packages. But because the proposed solution is so simple, we can handle that later pretty easily as long as we agree on what we're doing up front to actually enable this. Cheers, Wyatt