Hi, Am Wed, May 04, 2022 at 07:23:43PM +0200 schrieb julien.pu...@gmail.com: > If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the > indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense? > > Instead of three lines: > > XB-Popcon-Reports: no > Rules-Requires-Root: yes > Pants-Need-Washing: yes > > The same package could use a single line: > > Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing
ACK. > (aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- > very-useful line less in so many packages!) I'd like to stress this! If "rules-needs-root: no" would be default the majority of packages could be build. So why not making this the default and just specify rules-needs-root: yes if needed? > Some of our tools might provide easy queries to the feature: > > $ apt-cache has-tag rules-needs-root my-beautiful-package > > $ apt-cache list-tags my-beautiful-package Makes sense. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
