Re: rpm groups and fedora: a modest proposal

[Brad Smith <brads redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 00:29, seth vidal wrote:
> > Plus I have a personal interest in doing the opposite of what you're
> > suggesting. Currently the headers stored on apt and yum servers don't
> > include the Group field though it would be great for people to be able
> > to search by in Fedora Tracker. Thus I'm very pleased that the new XML
> > metadata format does include this information. 
> 
> The yum headers and the apt headers do include this information.
> 

My bad. I took apart a header once and couldn't find it. I'll go look
again.

> 
> The group field is too freeform. If it is to be used it needs to be
> restricted.

Point taken. See my response to Jeff Spaleta. 

--Brad