[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Tags as an alternative to Groups (#632)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

This is not exactly the first time this has come up. I recall that @proyvind made a similar suggestion a few years ago in #107, though admittedly it was more confusing then...

Speaking as someone who has implemented a frontend for sorting, the M:N relationship that composition groups (or on the openSUSE side, the patterns) offer makes it very expensive for sorting, because you can't cheaply put a package entry into a single bucket.

Package management UIs would then have to not present by singular categorization, but implement indexing search based on these tags. That's pretty expensive. Mapping the tags to categories in the UI is not easy for the same reasons that comps groups and patterns as a source of categorization are not.

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