On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:07:58 +0000 Angelo Arrifano <mik...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I would keep existing categories and add a new TAG metadata to > existing ebuilds. Something like TAG="kde music player lyrics lastfm > visualization" for amarok, as example. > > A public list of *ALLOWED* tags would be published on our www > infrastructures. > > Then during the portage metadata regeneration process, a new tags dir > (under portage metadata dir) would be created with files for EACH tag. > Each tag file would include the fully qualified name for the ebuilds > in which the tag is present. > > This way, given a set of tags, it is easy and fast too lookup which > ebuilds match the given tags and how much (percentage) they match > them. > > For example: > The user searches for "music gnome lyrics" > > exaile is tagged as "(...) music gnome lyrics" > gnome-mplayer is tagged as "(...) music gnome" > amarok is tagged as "(...) music lyrics" > (...) > > So we can give an interest-ordered list to the user. > > Just my two cents, > Thanks all I've always thought it would be cool to have user-created tag clouds, del.icio.us-style, on packages.g.o. I expect this would be a hell of a lot of work to set up however. -- gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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