Fwd: Re: Tag your packages

["Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <gadek@debian.org>]

This should also improve ham/spam ration on debian-curiosa...

				GBP

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• To: Enrico Zini <zinie@cs.unibo.it>
• Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, deb-usability-list@lists.alioth.debian.org
• Subject: Re: Tag your packages
• From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
• Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:35 +0200
• Message-id: <1083362434.1969.83.camel@localhost>
• In-reply-to: <20040430171049.GA2317@mitac>
• References: <20040430171049.GA2317@mitac>

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 19:10, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Tags are grouped by "facet" or "namespace"[1]
> [1] we still haven't agreed on the term, and we have more
> important things to do :)

You've come to the right place.  At debian-devel we are always
willing to argue over the meanings of words.

First notice that a facet is something that an object has, whereas
a namespace is something that a name of an object occupies.
Thus, your two terms aren't really alternatives to each other,
but complements of each other.  One is a material-mode term, the
other a formal-mode term.

I suggest you say that the tags belong to tagspaces; that each
tagspace corresponds to a particular facet of packages; and that
each tag signifies a particular property that packages have.
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Thomas



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