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

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 19:45:09 UTC 2005


On 7/14/05, Eric R. Meyers <ermeyers at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
> Consensus is building.
> 
> I don't care what the grouping views are called. We just need to agree, and we
> are.  One of the major issues will be clarifying (defuzzying) the groups, and
> I'll use the group "web-server" as an example.  It's a generic name for
> Typal/Component group.  It should be made pure to clarify (defuzzify) its
> grouping purpose.  So packages like 'apachetop' and 'awstats' will need to be
> moved out into another Typal/Component group called web-server-accessories.

Uhm.. why exactly do i need a web-server-accessories group?  Why can't
those packages be optional members of the web server group?   If you
continue this trend of sub-divding groups so that accessory or
optional packages are in their own accessory group... you'll end up
with hundreds of visible groups as you subdivide group definitions. 
This is not a good solution.

The comps definition makes room for "optional" packages in a group..
it makes perfect sense to me to place accessories into existing groups
and mark them as "optional" so that tools can expose those packages
accordingly.

-jef




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