Re: Debtags for defining the minimal age that a program can generally be used

2013/9/13 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>

>
> > Is there any way to do it so that, at some point in the future we may
> have
> > orthogonal classifications, like for example
> > {0-3,3-6,6-12}x{educational,game,toy,development,office} ?
>
> Hmmm, every task is totally independent.  So the answer is probably no.
> While you could for sure create tasks like this
>
>    educational-age-0-3
>    educational-age-3-6
>    educational-age-6-12
>    game-age-0-3
>    game-age-3-6
>    game-age-6-12
>    toy-age-0-3
>    toy-age-3-6
>    toy-age-6-12
>    ...
>
> and than create metapackages like
>
>    age-0-3:
>      Depends: educational-age-0-3, game-age-0-3, toy-age-0-3, ...
>
>    age-3-6:
>      Depends: educational-age-3-6, game-age-3-6, toy-age-3-6, ...
>
>    ...
>
> and
>
>    educational:
>      Depends: educational-age-0-3, educational-age-3-6,
> educational-age-6-12
>
>    ...
>
> I would consider this pure overkill.  We intended to keep things simple
> and so this should not be a proposal for a solution.  Just to explain
> chances and limits of the tasks approach.
>

For some strange reason I kind of like that approach, it might not be as
overkill as it sounds and, even if it might not be a good idea for
starters, as there would be much more categories than programs, whenever we
start having enough programs classified, it's a reasonable layout that
might escalate nicely.

Greetings and thanks,
Miry