-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:40:20 -0400
Joshua Kinard <ku...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> TBH, I don't like the use of XML at all. 

No, we don't need to go one level (format) deeper.

> The 'all' thing is probably unnecessary

What problem does having 'all' tag solve? Seems pretty useless to me.

> Granted, a tag of "dev" offers no value (dev-python ->
> 'dev','python'), but if you were looking for a web browser versus a
> web server, having default tags of 'www','client' or 'www','servers'
> helps for packages in www-client and www-servers.

This might be helpful but rather as one-time, initial, hand-picked
generation on case-by-case (by the category) basis.

> I've always wondered is we allowed portage to have one additional
> level of nesting if that'd help any (i.e., games-* -> games/*).

Squashing games-*/ to just games/ and defining genre by tags. Seems
pretty doable, I like this.

- --
Jan Matějka        | Gentoo Developer
https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux
GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021  6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)

iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTMTZeAAoJEIN+7RD5ejah85gIAItDtxuEntu2nhb4uvltKHfu
dpnT0KePuAZKwV8H59jRx7AovfMo9nTjqs88Sgw6v9NbbKNxRmW3PPWmuJUnLniU
eG31vMsUJ1CgXxNLWaXaYZRi1QTYnJqJM5LDnfFsh4mj9Dk7t1/XCA6rKcICO3qQ
sqEDaSAyOYLBsTGPOyC2trrZNAsLEu2oLImzECXNHa6tNMJt75BJdGfKzFDTGBtF
XiG/qi2IV7ClYxVZP4W1LwN+SVUmLiEDUyMeP6FRgVdEmZcdlQGLm6kBiYD0A/2F
xeWHPoQpgkPRZuLRNv0vvvatO+A2KpXY1rs0s3BYb0xk3MDEGwE+X1ZrcDRVsIg=
=5YXb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Reply via email to