From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Add "tags" field to package record? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:24:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20180918122437.ipfljwv4akqyqrtm@thebird.nl> References: <87lg7zw0hs.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2F3c-00026y-NU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:24:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2F3X-0006MQ-OE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:24:44 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:40834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g2F3X-0006Iq-EN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:24:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lg7zw0hs.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: guix-devel 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.