Re: FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-10-29

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Christopher Stone (chris stone gmail com) said: 
> All packages should go in comps.  I don't know why notting is against
> this?!!?  Why should my php-pear-* packages be excluded from comps for
> example?  Just because some newb might not want to install them does
> not mean a php web developer would not use comps to install them.

It's the wrong idiom that does not scale to the size of our current
repository. If you want "Python library for doing 'foo'", any useful
package search is a far better mechanism than scrolling through a graphical
list of 650+ checkboxes.

Bill