To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: rpm groups and fedora: a modest proposal
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 13:05:36 -0700
--On Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:15 AM -0400 Brad Smith <brads redhat com>
wrote:
But the guts of rpm's machinery is not something I'm familiar with
enough to comment much more than that.
One approach would be to recycle the Groups field and treat the slashes as
keyword separators. Legacy packages would in effect have two keywords
already defined. (I'd need to double-check that the Groups field in the
header works this way, but I suspect it's just free-form text.)