Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: implicit discussion

[Aaron Bentley]

Miles Bader wrote:

> changing to a
> representation that used a single file per directory to hold explicit tags
> would improve things quite a bit.  However there doesn't appear to be any
> rush to change the implementation.

Archives contain the paths of those .id files.  We can't change the 
representation of explicit without
a) breaking archive compatibility or
b) layering an alternate namespace on top of the filesystem.

An alterative would be another tagging method that worked the same way 
as explicit.

Anyone feel like starting a page on the wiki called
"Features for Archive format 2.0"?

Aaron