On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:57:09PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Enrico Zini wrote: >> You bet. You can do it by looking for packages with similar tags, or >> clustering them according to similarity in the description. Or both. > Ahh, detecting similarities based on tags - sure, what else should I > have expected if it was code from Enrico. ;-)
No, not just tags: Xapian has features to compute similarity based on whatever
you index: you can put popcon into the mix, or dependencies, or keywords from
/usr/share/{doc,man}, or whatever really.
> BTW, this reminds me once more to consider a stronger connection of
> this Blends stuff with DebTags ...
Let's say that the idea of providing blend-specific tags is something worth
playing with. Have a look at 'goplay'(and golearn, goadmin, go*) for an
example of a way they can be used.
Ciao,
Enrico
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