Cleanup of the packaging tags

Question

I've just started looking at our tags; I'm wondering if we can clean up some of the package-related ones. We currently have:

• package-management (with an alias of package-manager)
• packages
• packaging
• package-conflicts

as well as apt, yum, rpm, packagekit, and probably other tags for specific package managers.

I'd like to suggest that we:

• (merge?) packages into package-management
• remove package-conflicts, as those questions should deal with a specific package manager

EDIT to clarify my suggestions for changes:

• Merge packages and package-conflicts into package-management.
• Keep the package-specific tags (e.g. apt, yum, etc).
• I'm in favor of removing packaging as it would commonly relate to a specific package manager. Not opposed to keeping it for general packaging questions, though (pros/cons of RPM vs DEB; how do I avoid filename conflicts).

Answer 1

Everything in your first four points can be merged into package-management, but specific package manager tags (apt, yum) and package format tags (rpm, deb) should stay as-is.

Specific package manager tags needs to stay as-is because they behave differently in some cases, and package format tags because I could ask a question about creating and installing packages independent of the package manager.

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EDIT

As @FaheemMitha says, packaging should remain to indicate questions about creating/dismantling packages, of course with a proper description indicating so.

Answer 2

I think:

• "packages" should definitely be folded in to "package-management".
• "packaging" should definitely not be folded in; I've just proposed a tag wiki edit based on my understanding of that tag (for packaging, not the end user's experience with packages). (It also seems to me that a software developer would want to make packages for multiple distros where possible, but maybe that is harder than I think.)
• "package-conflicts" seemed at first glance to be a valid tag, but when I checked it only has 8 questions tagged, and the majority of those seem like they should just be tagged with "software-installation". So given the sparse use of the tag, I say yes, it could be removed without loss.