New Comps Groups

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Dec 1 02:21:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 11:32 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> I'm writing an email application and want to find a library to help me
> do signing and encryption.  Do you know if Fedora includes one?
>
> I'm looking for something that I can use to make rpms in a clean chroot.
> Is there a package for something like that in Fedora?
> 
> I'm working on some surveying software and I need to do a lot of work
> with maps, coordinate plotting, etc.  What libraries are available in
> Fedora to help me get my work done?
> 
> There is software to answer all these questions in Fedora but it's not
> listed in comps.  Just look at the repoview page and you'll see why
> Ungrouped leads to a horrible end-user experience.

For the first and third, though, you don't want to browse.  Because if
the granularity of the groupings (which you browse) is good enough that
you can say "oh, that's obviously the only group I need to look in" you
either have a) 100s of groups or b) 100s of packages in each group.  And
that's never good for finding things.  Instead, you want good search.

For finding mock, browsing _could_ get you there, but if you know that
specifically what you want, again, searching is always going to get you
there faster.

Jeremy




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