On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Colin Walters (walters(a)verbum.org) said:
> > Speaking of changes to comps for the desktop I think it would be
> > worthwhile breaking down the hardware support group into a couple of
> > groups. I was thinking something along the lines of Servers (for
> > iSCSI/FCoE/FCA etc), Desktop/Laptop (For wifi etc), Printing and
> > possibly "other". Things like printers for example with the new auto
> > printer support shouldn't need to be installed by default, you don't
> > want server stuff on a netbook and generally wouldn't need wifi
> > firmwares on a server.
>
> That makes sense, yes. I think it'd be good to at least have an
> explicit "server stuff" group. I wanted to call it
> @traditional-unix-server for stuff like smartmontools and iscsi, but
> other naming suggestions welcomed.
Honestly, I could see exploding it into a variety of smaller, more focused
groups. Perhaps I'll whip up a proposal based on some comps files I have
lying around here.
I've spent a little time looking at the hardware side of things and
done a basic patch for some of the hardware stuff based on the current
rawhide comps file. I've broken it down into network/server/misc for
the time being and pushed the print stuff over to its group. More can
be done as it was a quick look through. The old hardware-support
currently includes all the other groups so there's no real change for
current builds overall.
I also noticed that alot of the filesystems group lists are replicated
into base. I think base should have the core ext related tools to boot
a default Fedora and the other stuff like ntfs should just remain in
the filesystems group.
Cheers,
Peter