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

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Sep 23 06:43:13 UTC 2008


Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 17:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:55 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Those "arbitrary" classifications are what Fedora maintainers work hard to keep 
> > up to date and complete, unlike your incomplete hardcoded classifications in 
> > PackageKit which are truly arbitrary and do not reflect how Fedora intends to 
> > categorize its packages.
> 
> What makes you think that the comps classifications are less arbitrary ?
> And isn't one of the original motivations for this thread that many
> packagers are exactly _not_ doing that hard work ?!

Some of them are. Even if hiding them in our main gui update tool isn't
exactly motivating.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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