<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Vít Ondruch </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><<a href="mailto:vondruch@redhat.com" target="_blank">vondruch@redhat.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Dne 14.7.2015 v 11:49 Neal Gompa napsal(a):<span class=""><br>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Vít Ondruch <<a href="mailto:vondruch@redhat.com" target="_blank">vondruch@redhat.com</a> <a href="mailto:vondruch@redhat.com" target="_blank"><mailto:vondruch@redhat.com></a>>wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Can we just drop comps entirely (or at least
trim them down significantly)? I know that this will not happen
from day to day, but I see the comps just as an ugly workaround
for missing weak dependencies, which we have now.<br>
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> If we did that, we'd need to switch to some other means of grouping packages. Borrowing a bit from how the Debian/Ubuntu folks do things, probably massive virtual packages/metapackages would work well for this purpose. Or perhaps a "type" of package that defines groups to provide a similar function to metapackages without requiring garbage empty tarballs.
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One advantage of comps/groups was that it allowed to uninstall
particular packages, where if you used Require at the same place, it
would be all or nothing. For example, rubyonrails group would be
better to express by Suggests dependencies then to have the group in
comps. Not mentioning that Gnome Software can handle meta package
while it does not handle groups (if I am not mistaken).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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