On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:28:40PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> > Maybe I don't have a great understanding of how facets, variants, and 
> > filters are all supposed to fit together.
> 
> I thought filtering would work on the basis of tags provided by the
> packager, so that filtering wouldn't be exactly ad-hoc -- users get to
> choose to leave components out that the packager decided to let them
> choose to leave out.

Filtering works on *any* attribute of *any* action.  You can filter out a
single file based on path, or any files with mode=0644, etc.  This is a lot
of rope.  The point behind variants and facets is to let the packager
define what filters were actually intended to be used -- what's
supportable.  You can always go off the reservation with filters if you
want, but you really are on your own.

Danek
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