How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 18:22:25 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 09:49 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
> It's not. Groups are a subset of the comps groups. I've done substantial
> user research, and I'm sorry to say fine grained categories _do not
> work_ with real users. None of the people in
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-profiles.html could tell me what they
> expected to find in base-system/system-tools or base-system/admin-tools,
> or tell me the difference between them.

So your solution is to invent something else entirely, rather than
helping Fedora clean up its groupings definitions?  Really?  Nice.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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