comps discussion at fudcon and the future
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 14 21:26:46 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:22 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> No. I want to update everything currently installed, and be /offered/
> anything new. By "new packages" I mean "packages that didn't exist last
> time I ran updates" (as opposed to "updates of already installed
> packages"). Sorry for the confusion.
Well having them 'offered' implies interactivity in a way that I very
much doubt we'll have. If the group has new pkgs in it then those are
requirements, not recommendations.
> > I think what you want out of groups is beyond the scope of what we're
> > trying to do.
>
> That may be. In which case, I guess the point is just that what you're
> doing is not something that will be useful to me, as I don't typically
> install entire groups (ever). (On my Asus, I even wrote a script to find
> all packages that are not on, or dependencies of, a "whitelist" and
> remove them.)
Right, It sounds like what you want is a better way of searching out
packages and installing the specific ones you want.
-sv
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