On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 07:55, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello. > > The size of Debian increases, and the Sections: system has proven unable to > scale to keep pace with it. There has been much consensus around a multiple > tags per package solution, and now, yes, it has become a reality.
Wow, this looks very cool! Great work. Some questions for you: 1) In general what work do you see remaining to do before Debian can adopt this system? It would be nice to make aptitude aware of these tags for example. 2) Do you forsee tags being maintained outside of the packages in the future? For developing the tag system this makes sense, but it seems to me that maintainers should have more direct control over this somehow. Further, I'd like to add a new tag to the vocabulary for use with Debian Desktop; this tag would reflect the overall "specialization" of the package. A lot of packages in Debian are highly specialized, interesting only to a relatively small percentage of our users; the bioinformatics stuff is a good example. So I am thinking of something like this: specialization::high specialization::medium specialization::low Basically I would want the Debian Desktop distribution to mainly include "general-appeal" sort of software. Also, a tag to reflect the expected user experience level for a piece of software might be be nice. This overlaps a little with the specialization. Say: userlevel::novice userlevel::expert My ultimate goal is to have software like rhythmbox (low specialization, easy to use) be very prominent in the default Debian Desktop package list.
