From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Subject: Re-approaching package tagging Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:20 -0500 Message-ID: <875zvsq8ov.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39090) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYy95-0001Pf-Qg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYy93-0006ha-AE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:39 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:33966) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gYy91-0006Wy-0Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:35 -0500 Received: from jasmine (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 967AD26679 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:20 -0500 (EST) 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: Guix Devel Hello, In the past when we've discussed package tagging, I think Ludo' has been against it, primarily because it's a giant source of bikeshedding. I agree that it's a huge space for bikeshedding... no space provides more bikeshedding than naming things, and tagging things is a many to many naming system. However, I will say that finding packages based on topical interest is pretty hard right now. If I want to find all the available roguelikes: cwebber@jasmine:~$ guix package -A rogue hyperrogue 10.5 out gnu/packages/games.scm:3652:2 roguebox-adventures 2.2.1 out gnu/packages/games.scm:1047:2 Hm, that's strange, there's definitely more roguelikes that should show up than that! A more specific search is even worse: cwebber@jasmine:~$ guix package -A roguelike cwebber@jasmine:~$ What I should have gotten back: - angband - cataclysm-dda - crawl - crawl-tiles - hyperrogue - nethack - roguebox-adventures - tome4 So I only got 1/4 of the entries I was interested in in my first query. Too bad! I get that we're opening up space for bikeshedding and *that's true*. But it seems like not doing so makes things hard on users. What do you think? Is there a way to open the (pandora's?) box of tags safely? - Chris