http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 04:28:58 UTC 2005


Chris Ricker (kaboom at oobleck.net) said: 
> I think something like comps.xml, but for extras, would be a better fit in 
> terms of goals of having groups of stuff easily installable with yum 
> groupinstall and similar.
> 
> The catch is figuring out how to group though. Sometimes you can do it by 
> function (games group would probably be popular) but sometimes function 
> doesn't make much sense (we probably don't want a windowmanagers group, we 
> want a group for E + all its little applets, for blackbox + all its little 
> applets, etc)

Yeah, that's the problematic thing here. For example, when the
currently existing comps.xml was made, some of the stuff was easy
(all Games grouped together, Development Tools, etc.)

However, that only accounts for a subset of packages. Realistically,
random libraries shouldn't be listed, except perhaps for the -devel
pacakge in one of the development library groups. And some of the
packages defy simple categorization, unless you have a group for each
package. Which... no.

Bill




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