On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:07:51PM +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote:
Group information can be extracted from the RPM package: e.g. Group : System Environment/Base may result in system-environment group with base subgroup or something like that. This group includes the packages that are tagged with that group name in the .spec file.
This assumes there is a one-to-one mapping between used RPM group names and comps groups. AFAIK this is currently not the case. It could be done that way, as the RPM group tag is not used for anything else at this moment (in the past anaconda used it for showing a tree structure, IIRC).
You are right that default, mandatory and optional is hardly automated. For that one needs a criteria of some kind (that is probably missing in the RPM file).
As the RPM group tag is just a string, you could probably even include it there, like with "Group: base(optional)" or "Group: kde-desktop(mandatory)".