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Re-approaching package tagging
From: |
Christopher Lemmer Webber |
Subject: |
Re-approaching package tagging |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:01:20 -0500 |
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mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
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:
address@hidden:~$ 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:
address@hidden:~$ guix package -A roguelike
address@hidden:~$
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