On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:00:24AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Recently, you've added the following groups to comps:
it-security-code-analysis
it-security-forensics
it-security-intrusion-detection
it-security-reconnaissance
it-security-wireless
it-security-password-recovery
You've also added a new toplevel category. This means this new nebulous
'IT Securty' item is pushed at the toplevel, much as 'Desktops' or
'Language Support'. That seems misplaced to me.
How can I bundle the groups, if not with a category? Or can there be
subcategories?
While I know that we do allow some discretion in adding to comps,
none
of this was discussed beforehand on this list (that I saw), or in FESCo.
These sorts of large scale changes are the sorts of things that should
be discussed.
I asked on this list and got a reply from Jesse Keating:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02292.html
What is the overall goal of these changes?
The goal is to make it easier to find software related to specific IT security
related tasks.
Why isn't this just done via a menus package in the security
spin?
Wouldn't that be more useful?
No, because this does not help me with my search from yum. Btw. this is
true for other package groups, too. E.g. we have a KDE spin and a KDE
group in comps.
Many of these packages are *already* in other groups; having them
now be explicitly listed in multiple groups doesn't really make sense
to me, especially when we already have 'Administration Tools' and
'System Tools' groups.
I believe the restriction that packages may only belong to one group is
gone. I don't see why it is not helpful to be easily able to install
these related packages.
Regards
Till