gnaughty is a hot babe

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 29 16:17:49 UTC 2009



On Fri, 29 May 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On 05/29/2009 08:40 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> we're on a silly slope and putting provides tags into certain pkgs is
>> just plain dumb - wanna put a wiki page up - that's fine.
>>
>> polluting provides tags is not a good plan.
>>
> Here's a proposal then:
>
> Packages that some people in some cultures may have problems with can be
> tagged as such.  Those tags can then be used by people who care to
> filter out packages they don't want to be visible.
>
> These tags are to be created and attached to packages by users
> (including package maintainers as they use the packages too).  Tags can
> be free-form and number of times a tag was selected for a package will
> be kept.  Tags will be separate from the binary rpm files but will be
> associated with the packages.
>
> It's up to depsolver authors to decide if the tags will be used in any
> way in their programs.  It's up to people working on derived
> distributions/spins to decide how to use the available tags to filter
> the package set.  No mandatory step for adding tags will be imposed for
> all package maintainers in the Packaging Guidelines.


I'm fine with tags. I cannot wait for a "family friendly foundation" to mark up our 
package tags. It shall be a joy.

-sv








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