How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 26 00:50:19 UTC 2008
Michel Salim wrote:
> 2008/9/23 James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>:
>> _Well done_ for bringing up rpm specfile groups which are obsolete, as
>> I'm sure you know, and have been since before PK existed.
>
> I've been wondering -- is there any reason we don't get rpmbuild to
> strip the group out of the package metadata when it generates a binary
> RPM?
Smart, Apt and probably others still rely on those IIRC. If they are
taught to use comps, we can get rid of the rpm groups.
Rahul
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