[aur-general] How about hashtags in package description?

[Andrei Thorp]

Re: searching descriptions: when searching via description, you're
likely to find descriptions that have whatever keyword you typed, but
not in the scenario you had in mind.

Example:
You searched for "office" and that matches the description
"Game about shooting people at the office"

If instead you had a tag system, searching --tag office would,
presumably, match office applications only. Anyway, this may not be a
tremendously great example, but I think there is somewhat of a point
here.

-AT

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:32:29PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:55:01 +0100
>> Jens Maucher <jensmaucher at online.de> wrote:
>>
>> > Am Sonntag 15 März 2009 17:00:05 schrieb Pierre Chapuis:
>> > > Le Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:54:12 -0400,
>> > >
>> > > Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> > > > > What's the practical difference between a tag and a hashtag?
>> > > >
>> > > > I think that he means to put tags as comments? I have no clue
>> > > > really
>> > >
>> > > I thought he was talking about something like tags used in Jabber or
>> > > Identi.ca posts. They are inline and begin with a hash, like that:
>> > >
>> > > I think #Arch #Linux is awesome.
>> >
>> > The sense escapes me. o_O
>>
>> I see people doing this on twitter.
>> Functionality-wise they are just tags.
>> the hash ('#') sign in front is to just mark "this is a tag", which is
>> useful for other tools and scripts to parse/categorize/... content
>
> So it isn't really any more useful than just searching a well written
> description eh?
>
>