Re: Misclassification of packages; "libs" and "doc" sections
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:05:00AM +0300, Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> was heard to say:
[snip "yeah we are in agreement, cool" :) ]
> >
> > Also, are you disagreeing with me, or just restating what I said more
> > succinctly? It looks like the latter..
> >
>
> I agree with you about the need for a hiearchy. I might have said it too
> succintly :)
>
> Well, I disagree with you in that the hierarchy should be richer
> than a tree. In an is-a hierarchy with single inheritance, the whole
> hierarchy is a tree (in the formal sense), and an is-a hiearchy
> with multiple inheritance is a directed acyclic graph.
>
> X11_Client Development_Tool
> \ /
> \ /
> Graphical_Debugger
> / \
> / \
> [DDD] [xxgdb]
>
> You get the idea...
Ok, I think this is what I meant, except that I was thinking of the UI end. This is
definitely how to do the datastructure, though. (suggestions as to how to represent the above
without resorting to GL [1] are welcome ;-) )
> > I'm not sure I see why this would be useful except for the sake of
> > finding out what subsystem Debian thinks a particular package goes in.
> > This is usually the last thing I care about when looking for software.
> >
>
> An example is release management. If subsystem boundaries are small
> compared to inter-subsystem dependencies then a subsystem can be
> released as a sub-distribution; the release management can be decoupled
> from that of other sub-systems. Also each subsystem may have different
> formal requirements, in other words this is for implementation of
> the distribution, not the interface :) A user would be less
> interested in this.
ah, ok. You may want to look through the archives; people suggest this periodically,
although I don't think anyone ever gave quite such a detailed explanation.
> > Hm, could you provide references for the research? I think some
> > cognitive science stuff could be useful as well; I should probably spend
> > some time next weekend reading up on it.
> >
>
> A friend gave me these URLs to have a look at, but there are
> certainly countless resources on the net. I'll take a
> look at some ontology-based classification systems, too.
[snip -- I'll put this on the ever-growing queue of stuff I want to look at in the future..
hopefully that'll be the NEAR future..]
Daniel
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