[users] Dropping the repotag

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

hi,

too bad Dag, I for one certainly appreciated the repotags.

I've just been reading the EPEL postings (and learning what EPEL is!)

several people seemed in favor of adding the epel repotag, I sure hope 
they will and you will revert to yours.


> You can always get the information you want out of the package database:
> $ rpm -q --qf %{NAME}\\t%{VENDOR}\\t%{DISTRIBUTION}\\n rpmforge-release

I am a user, not a packager. the above is gibberish to me, and I hope it 
can remain so.
I like to see at first glance where a package comes from, and I'm happy 
to see all my rpmforge packages with a simple
rpm -qa | grep rf
and refine the regex if needed

I don't want to learn more rpm syntax + tag names than I need... and I'm 
probably not the only one


> As I already said, getting a list of all installed packages coming from
> (for example) RPMForge is always a problem and it won't get any harder
> if you drop the pointless repotag and instead use decent values for the
> appropriate Tags. It will probably even become easier to gather
> information, because the data you want is available in a structured
> format and you don't have to find your way through the regex-hell then.

I totally disagree, see above
structured formats are good for programs, not so much for humans (look 
at XML)
And most people know their way around regex-heaven better than they do 
in rpm-tag-hell ;-)


cheers,
nicolas