Debtags and Debram (Was: Re: New debtags suite just uploaded)

[Benjamin Mesing]

Hello,

first thanks for the clarifications. 

> > >  1) Given the list of all your terminal groups, see if they are all
> > >     representable using intersections between different debtags facets.
> > >     If not, then refine the facet structure to be able to represent your
> > >     categories.
> > Hmm... what exactly to you mean by this? 
> 
> For example, take 1653 "Mailbox Handling" and see if it can be tagged
> in a way that is both satisfactory and unique among all the other debram
> groups.  It may be that this isn't always possible: let's take 1653
> "Mailbox Handling", for example:
>  - we could use media::mail and use::storing, but we have no applicable
>    tag from the mail:: facet, which is not satisfactory
>  - if for example there were a "Mail Delivery Agent" group, then both
>    media::mail and use::storing could also be used for it, and so the
>    tagging wouldn't be unique.

This makes sense. In my opinion it is really desirable to automate the
process as there are more than 10.000 packages.


> > I think it would also be useful if one could find some direct mappings
> > of some of the terminal groups to allready existing tags (e.g. 1714 TeX
> > to tech::tex) as this would reduce the number of terminal groups to be
> > considered.
> 
> Yes.  I think in many cases we'll find this to be quite natural, too.
With the procedure described above this is only a special case of it.

Greetings Ben