On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:40:19PM +0200, Kyrre Nygard wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Just a wild thought here ...
>
> After noticing how much simpler it is using tags, for instance
> with my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us -- compared to hours of
> frustration trying find the right combination of folders and
> sub folders in my Firefox' bookmarks.html, I was wondering
> if the same approach could be used to arrange the UNIX filesystem
> hierarchy, from the root and up. This is just a radical thought,
> not yet an idea even -- but if somebody would be willing to think
> with me -- maybe we could make a big change.
>
> All the best,
> Kyrre
Looks like most of this can be achieved using symlinks and some
scripting language for an indexing application. Perl is already
installed in base, and would be a good choice. Shell scripts would get
messy if not done very carefully.
Joachim
