On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 14:12 -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 08/22/2018 04:28 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
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> == Summary ==
> Remove the Group: tag from over 9000 source packages.
I noticed that gpg-pubkey packages consistently have the group of
Public
Keys, so at worst it's being used for something, and at best there's
a
template somewhere that includes it when those packages are created.
Also, as a random data point, here are the Group stats from a system
with most (7700+) Fedora 27 packages installed:
1 Applications/Security
1 Development/Build Tools
2 Amusements/Graphics
2 Development/Java
3 System/Boot
6 Amusements/Games
10 System Environment/Kernel
11 Applications/Editors
11 User Interface/X Hardware Support
12 Applications/Communications
13 Development/Debuggers
16 Development/System
17 Applications/File
19 Applications/Archiving
20 Applications/Databases
20 Documentation
21 Applications/Productivity
22 Applications/Emulators
26 User Interface/Desktops
31 Public Keys
33 Applications/Text
46 System Environment/Daemons
59 Applications/Internet
65 User Interface/X
93 Applications/Multimedia
128 Applications/Engineering
157 Applications/System
163 Development/Tools
201 System Environment/Base
230 Development/Languages
288 Development/Debug
329 Applications/Publishing
807 Development/Libraries
843 System Environment/Libraries
3516 Unspecified
I think you are missing the main point , Groups was deprecated in favor
of comps.xml or appdata (we wrote about it, some time ago in thread
"why the Group tag is obsolete ? " [1]
"So, (if we want the package have a group ) all packages should be
enumerated in comps, or not ? .
Yes (in comps)"
So are all packages enumerated in comps ? (no)
Have we a replacement of repoview that group packages without using rpm
group tag ? (no)
What is the percentage of packages that have appdata ?
what is the percentage of packages that are registered in comps.xml ?
Maybe it was more useful have a task force in these 3 points (
repoview, appdata and comps.xml )
Final note , as I still use repoview, I think it is a useful tool , it
doesn't make much sense to me remove group tag ...
Best regards,
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject
.org/message/3QFUZOGMGLGO4WONBDIFEXKBSG3T4OXU/
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Sérgio M. B.