[Debtags-devel] New version of Debtags stuff uploaded to experimental

[Erich Schubert]

Hi Enrico,

> One problem is that that would mean imposing a rational (and possibly
> incorrect) choice from the beginning, while the automatic
> "hierarchization" follows the corpus of tags we have.

Facets are also a (shallow) hierarchization, that can be incorrect as well.
If I see a hardware facet, the existence of a hwtech facet definitely
confuses me, I would expect that to be inside hardware.

> The other problem is that if you do hardware::tech, you force that
> hwtech to appear under hardware, while in debtags-edit I've just looked
> for use::playing and found a very nice hwtech::cd.

I don't get that point.

> > I mean, my web packagebrowser doesn't know what a facet is at all. ;-)
>=20
> Is that a feature?  I always considered it a bug :-P :)

Well, its some kind of feature, since facets also have design issues...

best regards,
Erich Schubert
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