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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 21.09.2008 14:25, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 20.09.2008 22:00, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram <sundaram <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
>>> PackageKit does use it via the yum backend.
> One more reason for us then to make sure everything a user might want to 
> select is in comps.xml, isn't it?
> 
>>> http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/09/19/packagekit-collections/
>> Note that this is only from 0.3.3 on.
> 
> /me looks at rawhide and finds 0.3.2
> 
> /me grabs 0.3.3 straight from koji
> 
> /me fails to get it to work on F9 (likely my fault) :-/

Updating yum as well did the trick.

> Hmm. From the screenshot it's hard to see if gpk-application exports the 
> package groups from comps.xml similar to how pirut/anaconda do. But 
> seems to be different, which would be a important detail for the 
> decision how to maintain the comps.xml in Fedora...

Seems to be way different. In pirut/anaconda you in F9 for example can 
select the group "GNOME Desktop Environment"; then you can hit the 
"details" button and select some more packages from the gnome group or 
deselect some other you don't want. Seems that's not possible in 
gpk-application right now. Not sure if it should, but that's quite and 
important detail when if comes to the "how to maintain comps.xml 
properly" question.

CU
knurd