On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 06:27 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:13 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It should be really easy to make a script that builds metagroup
>> packages from comps, no?
>>
>> This will allow someone to install a group such as kde/gnome as an rpm
>> package and when packages are removed/added/changed in the comps
>> groups, the meta group package also changes, and the user gets the
>> appropriate changes.
>>
>> I don't think this is possible now with the groupinstall feature in
>> yum which IMO is a bad feature since it should be done with meta group
>> packages as I describe.
>
> So you want to make packages based on what is in comps?
>
> Whats the point of that if we can just read the comps information
> itself?
Not if you use smart or apt.. these tools don't use comps.xml
That's up to them, isn't it? Ask the application maintainer.
-sv