RPM submission procedure

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jan 8 01:24:51 UTC 2004


> Ah, now this brings up my other issue, which is that the present RPM
> Groups field is basically useless and should be replaced with a Trove
> map.  Who owns the format of that field?

The world, afaict. And per-pkg group listings aren't going to help. It
doesn't cope well with i18n and the flexibility is horribly limited.
This is why the groups stuff comes up in comps.xml.

-sv






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