Extras repodata

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:48 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 24/10/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> wrote:
> > Indeed it is. It would be useful if there were some way for a package
> > owner to specify the group it belongs to. And no, the Groups tag is
> > *not* an effective way of doing so. At least, not with the values we're
> > currently restricted to.
> >
> > Since the Groups tag is obsolescent, why can't we use that to specify
> > the package group instead?
> 
> Partly because there is more information required than provided by the
> Group tag. E.g. a package can be a member of more than one group, and
> can have such attributes as "required" in it.
> 
> I think we just need to make "editing the group file" step required as
> part of the "New package process."

Except that you don't want to require that packages be listed in the
comps file.

eg, there is *no* reason why a library should be included there.
Libraries should just get pulled in for dependencies

Jeremy