[Nix-dev] Flattening pkgs tree in nixpkgs/pkgs

[Profpatsch]

On 16-01-08 10:16pm, Tomasz Czyż wrote:
> 2016-01-08 14:58 GMT+00:00 Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com>:
> > The largest problem I see for categorization is ambiguity (mentioned
> > already). The "categories" will always overlap nontrivially, so we would
> > better track such information in a different way than directory
> > structure, e.g. meta.tags = [ "foo" "bar" "baz" ]; (perhaps even
> > hierarchical tags).
>
> +1

Tags are generally a better solution for most categorization problems.
But it’s not trivial to get a working system where consistens tags are
used.

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