On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:06, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > I find it a quite interesting idea. If it was implemented, there should be > > an scale, so that maintainers have some reference in order to tag their > > packages. > > This would be rather arbitrary and probably be liable to cause disagreements.
Not much more so than with the priorities for the alternatives system. I find this quite an interesting idea, really. > I think you could get much the same affect with some well chosen tags and > debtags. e.g. you could filter on: > > command line only tools > enterprise tools (e.g. groupware, RDBMS) > scientific tools (e.g. octave, R) > sysadmin tools (e.g. mrtg) That could work too; however, in that case the "proviciency level" of your filter would need to be pretty expert-ish, I'm afraid. Which would defeat the purpose, kinda. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
