Re: Adding tags to packages

[Pjotr Prins]

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'
> 
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