Moving from Groups to Trove

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Dec 9 02:33:54 UTC 2003


Rudi Chiarito <nutello at sweetness.com>:
> Another pet peeve of mine is a more comprehensive GROUPS file for rpm.
> The current one is pretty anaemic.

That's because the Groups tree is rather half-assed to begin with.  I
think it ought to be scrapped and replaced with Trove specifiers, and
I'd think that even if I hadn't designed the original Trove.

Freshmeat and SourceForge have both used Trove and found it effective.
And there are obvious examples to having just one classification system.
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