Re: comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 14:15 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > - users expect groups to be more persistent on their systems and to act
> >   more like pkgs (ie: yum update should update groups, too)
> 
> Um... Finding out about new packages is fine, but having it only work as 
> long as you have everything in a particular group IMO isn't useful.


> 
> I'd rather see "interests", i.e. "subscribe" to certain groups to get 
> notification of new packages in that group. And there needs to be a way 
> to run updates without pulling new packages (and once I've declined a 
> new package from a group I am subscribed to, I should never be prompted 
> about it again).

you want to update your system w/o pulling down the pkgs? That's, umm,
very difficult. One might even say impossible.

I think what you want out of groups is beyond the scope of what we're
trying to do. Or maybe I'm not understanding what it is you want.

-sv