[Debtags-devel] What about the lonely tags?

[Torsten Marek]

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Enrico Zini schrieb:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:28:27PM +0100, Torsten Marek wrote:
> 
> 
>>so all those unfaceted tags can be removed? That makes the tags file ~6% smaller.
> 
> 
> The idea [1] is that some of those legacy tags might still convey some
> data, so one should double-check them before removing them.
> 
> To distinguish between "facet-tags" and legacy facetless tags (like
> 'bbs'), however, one could proceed with a renaming of the facetless tags
> into 'legacy::*' first, then removing all the rest.
> 
> Or, I might even be fine with just going on and removing all of them:
> there is probably not much information left anyway, and the effort of
> preserving it might be higher than the effort of readding the same
> amount of information.
> 
Hi,

that's what I'm doing. What I really meant was "tagless facets".
Anyway, what is to be done with foreignos?
Add an extra facet + OSes, like

foreign-os::windows
foreign-os::amiga
foreign-os::dos
foreign-os::apple2

best greetings

Torsten

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