Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Michael Poole]

Tom Lord writes:

>     > From: address@hidden (James Blackwell)
>
>     > Why on earth do we need a turing complete language for =tagging-method?
>
>     > Can you explain how its not overengineering? 
>
> Because that's the best place I can think of to add rules for things
> like domain-specific diffing and patching.

To me it seems two things are being conflated: Classifying files and
the handler for a particular classification.  I can see
=tagging-method recognizing more types than junk, backup, precious,
source, excluded and unrecognized.  I submit that handlers for such
new types should be defined in a separate place, for the
inventory-related reasons that abentley enumerated.

Michael