From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Adding tags to packages Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:20:02 +0100 Message-ID: <871t9yvj71.fsf@gnu.org> References: <568828EF.7050406@gnu.org> <87h9ivxcgb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFjVv-000889-WF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:20:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFjVs-0004rC-SG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:20:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87h9ivxcgb.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:02:44 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Fabio Pesari Alex Kost skribis: > Fabio Pesari (2016-01-02 22:45 +0300) wrote: > >> Sorry to bump an old thread but I agree with the OP that tags in >> packages would be very helpful, and I can think of at least one use case >> in which they might be necessary: games. > > I also think tags may be useful (especially searching by tags). In the > worst case it will do no harm. If you don't want to use tags, you > can ignore them. We must also keep in mind the cost of maintaining them and the associated infrastructure. Ludo=E2=80=99.