Quoting seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu>:
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 23:27, Dan Young wrote:
> Havoc Pennington said:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:36, seth vidal wrote:
> >> or maybe consider building up comps.xml/yumgroups.xml files that
> >> could create groups of packages for people to search for.
> >
> > That's what I'd like to see. Maybe even a requirement that all
"end
> > user visible" packages be in a comps file.
>
> What relation (if any) does /usr/share/doc/rpm-<version>/GROUPS have
> here? Is this maintained seperately, being part of the rpm package
> instead of comps?
I believe the only thing that really uses those groups anymore is
rpmlint.
Synaptic uses (rpm) groups to organize the package tree view - typos in rpm
groups show up really nicely there :) Things like
Application/Multimedia
+ somedvdplayer
Applications/Multimedia
+ multimediaplayer1
+ multimediaplayer2
+ ..etc
They have almost no meaning and there isn't enough depth or breadth to
let them be a good classifier, imo.
Yup, many packages don't have a real match in the "official" rpm group list
at
all and others could be put into one of several groups, typically things like
python modules: is this System Environment/Libraries, Development/Libraries or
Development/Languages .. when it fits to all of those.
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