On 06/22/2011 02:38 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote: > Whatever happened to implementing tags for the Portage tree? The idea > behind tags was to avoid spamming users with more and more > directories, especially for apps that are hard to categorize. Which, > arguably, is most of them. We have tags for weblog content/topics; > tags for ebuilds are also a good idea.
It could be implemented with a metadata.xml extension, or possibly an new ebuild variable. A GLEP would be a good way to propose such an extension. > Splitting up the media-* categories doesn't solve any problems for > the packages that do many different things, whether encoding, > playing, editing, wrapping, connecting, etc. Many media apps belong > in 3 or 4 or more categories. Tags are the right solution for these, > rather than being pigeonholed into just one category, which only > reflects one use. I tend to agree that addition of more categories probably isn't very useful. However, I wouldn't be opposed to people adding new categories if they believe that it will be useful somehow. -- Thanks, Zac
