Applications install should be idiot proof

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 27 14:02:33 UTC 2009



On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote:

> Would these be a comps-like system? Could they replace comps
> with tags like -required and -recommended tag suffixes (my
> knowledge of the inner working of comps is limited)? Or would
> they be marked in pkgdb or the spec file? Links to information
> would be nice; I'd like such a system :) .
>

no - this is not a comps replacement. This is a simple tag system. The 
info is in the pkgdb but made available for the repodata so that yum (et. 
al) can get to it.

-sv




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