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Re: Re-approaching package tagging
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Re-approaching package tagging |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 12:29:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Christopher Lemmer Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
> 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.
The reason I’m unconvinced about tags is that I used to be a big fan of
them, back when debtags was introduced (long ago!), but then I had to
face reality: people (me included) would just do plain text searches,
not sophisticated tag queries.
> 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
I’m surprised you don’t mention --search, which is more appropriate than
-A (‘-A’ is here only to search among package names):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix package -s roguelike | recsel -p name,relevance
name: roguebox-adventures
relevance: 7
name: tome4
relevance: 5
name: crawl
relevance: 5
name: crawl-tiles
relevance: 5
name: cataclysm-dda
relevance: 5
name: angband
relevance: 5
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I’m very much in favor of improving ‘--search’ until we’re happy with
the results it gives.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
- Re-approaching package tagging, Christopher Lemmer Webber, 2018/12/17
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging,
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- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, zimoun, 2018/12/18
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/12/19
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, zimoun, 2018/12/19
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, zimoun, 2018/12/19
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/12/20
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, Chris Marusich, 2018/12/20
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/12/21
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, Christopher Lemmer Webber, 2018/12/20
- Re: Re-approaching package tagging, swedebugia, 2018/12/20