On 26 June 2011 23:40, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I think we should avoid changing the fundamental design of portage, > such as removing categories or allowing tags to be used as > dependencies/etc. At least, not right now. If we set up namespaces > for tags that might allow for such a thing in the future.
At this time I vehemently oppose the idea of using tags for dependencies. If there was even a good reason to do this, I would probably want to see the system working really well first. > The main driver behind tags seems to be searchability, and I think > that is something we could easily improve. +1 > I don't think we should > hold that up over an initiative to completely re-architect Gentoo... +1 -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
