How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> 
> Comps.xml is afaics mainly used in anaconda (and thus indirectly in 
> tools like pungi that rely on anaconda) and yum (if you know what to do) 
> these days; PackageKit afaics doesn't use it much (or does it use 
> comps.xml at all? Will that change?); it just lists everything it finds 
> afaics (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not using PackageKit much and just 
> use yum directly).

PackageKit does use it via the yum backend.

http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/09/19/packagekit-collections/

Rahul