[Slackbuilds-users] Anyone using TAGS?

[B. Watson]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2026, Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

> If that's what's used for finding software in the Slackbuilds search box, then it has certainly led me to similar software I ended up using instead.

TAGS.txt isn't used for searches. It's a list of all the search
keywords from the database, but when you do a search on the site, the
database is used, not the text file.

TAGS.txt exists as a convenience. It would let you e.g. write your
own local scripts that know about the keywords. I use it for exactly
that...

Getting rid of the text file wouldn't affect the database. But,
good news, we're not getting rid of the text file anyway. I've just
rewritten the script that generates it, so it runs in about 2 seconds
instead of however many minutes it used to take.