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From: Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:33:50 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Are tags just sets?
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 07:53, Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> wrote:
> =D0=92 =D0=9F=D0=BD=D0=B4, 27/06/2011 =D0=B2 20:26 -0700, Brian Harring =
=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
>> > Second, make a bunch of sets named kde-tag, editors-tag, xml-tag,
>> > monkeys-tag etc.
>
> I'd like avoid editing multiple files. Much better will be keep tags
> with package.
>
<snip />
> Also I like metadata.xml proposal since it'll be easy to use
> per-category metadata.xml for all ebuilds to inherit.
>
You weren't planning on doing this all _manually_, were you? ;)  With
proper tool support (or even just a couple quick scripts), the
single/multiple file argument becomes pretty much moot.

Another thing I think should be reiterated is that leveraging sets in
this matter gets us implication and aliasing for free (as long as sets
can be included inside of other sets).  I'm not sure it would be so
easy to accomplish otherwise.

Regards,
Wyatt