I can predict how I will use it. I want to list bioinformatics package and keep track of statistics.
Pj. On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:24:55AM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 09:41:04AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > I don't know it this has been discussed before, but it would be useful > to have an optional tagging system. I would like to mark packages that > are useful for bioinformatics which can be outside the > bioinformatics.scm. Likewise it would be useful to mark packages that > are security related, network related, desktop related, x11 related > etc. > > I propose an open metadata tagging system where package maintainers > can just enter any keyword in a list. Like the license tag, they can > be approved by GNU Guix and have metadescriptions somewhere. > > This is about searching for information. One useful output would be to > present collections of packages on the www or in RDF/JSON. > > > Yeah it's been discussed before. > > Looking at other operating systems / package managers which do this, it > has never really been a success. Trying to predict what tags the user > is going to search for is - well like trying to read the mind of > someone you've not yet met. > > J' > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > --
