From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Add "tags" field to package record?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:24:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180918122437.ipfljwv4akqyqrtm@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg7zw0hs.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:42:07PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> What about adding an optional "tags" field to the package record?
>
> Tags would be arbitrary (e.g. "editor", "video", "music", etc.) and
> useful for package exploration, both from commandline and guix.el I
> suppose.
This is also an old discussion, see the archives ;)
This is meta-data that arguably can be outside the package tree. I
would encourage developing such a database, ideally using wikidata or
similar.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-18 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-18 10:42 Add "tags" field to package record? Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-18 10:51 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-18 11:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-09-18 12:24 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2018-09-22 12:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-24 7:43 ` Hartmut Goebel
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