Comps, or, Making it Easier for Users to Find Software

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 14:03 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > With FC5 on the way and the advent of the repo-aware replacement for
> > system-config-packages (pirut), we're now in a much better position for
> > making it easy for users to gain access to applications.
> > 
> > So, you might ask, what can I do to help?  Well, if you maintain an
> > application which makes sense for a user to select[1], check out the
> > comps module and make sure that your package is listed in a reasonable
> > group in the comps-fe5.xml.in file.  If it's not, feel free to add it
> > using the following as a template if your package were named "foo":
> >   <packagereq type="optional">foo</packagereq>
> > If you think there needs to be a new group, please let me know.

> Should there be a "Fortran Development" group?  I have ftnchek that 
> would belong.

At the moment, I'd just throw it in the general development-tools
category.  Realistically, I don't like any of the "foo-development"
groups that are language specific.  Just haven't had ideas for better
ways to categorize yet :-/

Jeremy