Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags
On 01-May-03, 15:10 (CDT), Joshua Haberman <joshua@debian.org> wrote:
> * Steve Greenland (steveg@moregruel.net) wrote:
> > On 30-Apr-03, 17:47 (CDT), Jacob Hall?n <jacob@strakt.com> wrote:
> > > Other usefulpackage tags would be source language (C, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby
> > > etc.)
> >
> > Why? If the package performs the functionality requested, why should you
> > care what the source language is?
>
> Is it a problem to have too much information (within reason)?
Yes, exactly, it *IS* a problem. Having too many keywords (tags,
whatever) is at least as bad as having too few. Confusion, don't you
know.
> If someone was planning to write a GNOME application in Python,
> they might want to see examples of existing software using this
> combination.
That's not the purpose of tags. The purpose of tags is to help users
find software they want to use for a particular purpose.
And anyway, it's trivial to find the kind of thing you're looking for,
just search for dependencies on both "python" and "libgnome" (yeah, I
know those aren't the exactly correct names, but you know what I mean.)
Steve
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