From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: Adding tags to packages Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 11:24:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20150708092455.GA9660@jocasta.intra> References: <20150708074104.GA3813@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43969) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZClbU-0005ye-1r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 05:25:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZClbS-0003I0-Ta for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 05:25:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150708074104.GA3813@thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 09:41:04AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: I don't know it this has been discussed before, but it would be useful to have an optional tagging system. I would like to mark packages that are useful for bioinformatics which can be outside the bioinformatics.scm. Likewise it would be useful to mark packages that are security related, network related, desktop related, x11 related etc. =20 I propose an open metadata tagging system where package maintainers can just enter any keyword in a list. Like the license tag, they can be approved by GNU Guix and have metadescriptions somewhere. =20 This is about searching for information. One useful output would be to present collections of packages on the www or in RDF/JSON. =20 Yeah it's been discussed before. Looking at other operating systems / package managers which do this, it has never really been a success. Trying to predict what tags the user=20 is going to search for is - well like trying to read the mind of someone you've not yet met. J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlWc7GYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7MijgCdHrJoyT7ihDzM8Vr0duSJ5T2y c9AAn1/is5G+kHQUuAwhd+jg7lBByfZB =mcgv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--