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

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 06:40:18 UTC 2008


2008/9/23 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 09:15 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
>> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:47 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> > Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 07:01 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis a écrit :
>> > > On 21.09.2008 23:33, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> > > > Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> > > > [...]
>> > > > IMHO, a much better approach would be to:
>> > > > * throw out the hardcoded categories! We have that information in compsxml,
>> > > > PackageKit should not try to duplicate it.
>> >
>> > The PK argument used to be comps groups suck, are distro-specific, have
>> > no equivalent on some distros, so people should drop comps and
>> > contribute to pk hardcoded stuff instead.
>>
>> Where did you get that idea ?
>
> Already had many exchanges with Richard on the subject :)


If this is the idea, then this needs to be done at the LSB level, and
let it filter down to the distros. Frankly, I thought the idea was to
fit into each distro, not override each distro


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