Opkg Tags
Marcin Juszkiewicz
openembedded at haerwu.biz
Tue Mar 4 11:03:04 CET 2008
Dnia Monday 03 of March 2008, Thomas Wood napisał:
> I've implemented an extra field in the opkg package descriptions,
> called "Tags". The idea is to fill this field with tags similar to
> debtags, although no format is yet defined.
Cool. Tags will be much better then section field which we use now and
which is mess...
> Would people agree to using a debtag style format? That is, a white
> space separated list with tag-name::tag-value style tags.
I agree with format. This will allow to make use of debtags related
software probably.
> It would probably be advantageous to define our own vocabulary that
> would be useful for embedded systems. The first problem I would like to
> solve with tags is the grouping of GUI visible applications into
> categories such as "Multimedia", "Internet", "Games", etc. Therefore, I
> would like to suggest three tags and possible values:
> role::[utility, application, library, data, repository]
How does utility differ from application?
> group::[communication, programming, games, network, multimedia,
> mapping]
> interface::[console, gui]
Lets take Pidgin from Debian:
interface::x11
network::client
protocol::{irc,jabber,msn-messenger,oscar,ssl,yahoo-messenger}
role::program
uitoolkit::gtk
use::chatting
works-with::im
x11::application
Tag suite::{openmoko,kde,gnome,pimlico} would be nice too.
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