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Re: Add "tags" field to package record?
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Pjotr Prins |
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Re: Add "tags" field to package record? |
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Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:24:37 +0200 |
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:42:07PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Hi Guix,
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> What about adding an optional "tags" field to the package record?
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> Tags would be arbitrary (e.g. "editor", "video", "music", etc.) and
> useful for package exploration, both from commandline and guix.el I
> suppose.
This is also an old discussion, see the archives ;)
This is meta-data that arguably can be outside the package tree. I
would encourage developing such a database, ideally using wikidata or
similar.
Pj.