New groups in comps for F19

[Dan Mashal]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> as per [1], I'd like to propose some patches for F19 comps. These patches are
> splitting group called Development Tools into several smaller groups. The
> purpose of this email is to find out if there is something fundamentally wrong
> with the change (except for the fact that it is change).
>
> These are key points about the patch set:
> 1. There should be only small visible impact to users. Currently the only tool
> that is commonly using comps is anaconda and that uses the "Developer
> workstation" environment. This group will contain all groups that were created
> by the split to ensure maximal similarity to the old state of things.
>
> 2. All in all, the Development Tools group needed a huge cleanup, as it
> contained a lot of different tools and/or devel packages but many times these
> were only fractions of development environments necessary for the particular
> purpose. These tools are mostly still avaiable in other groups, like C
> development, Electronic Lab, ...
>
> 3. The current idea for Developer Tools group is to contain just tools that
> are common/usable for development of most programming languages
>
> 4. This should bring only the "big picture change". No need to discuss what
> particular packages should be in which group. That can be tuned any time
> later.
>
> 5. More groups targeted at specific areas should be created and/or reviewed
> soon-ish. Among them:
> Perl Development
> Python Development
> Ruby Development
> feel free to suggest more development-related areas that you would like to
> improve.
>
> The goal of this effort is to start a process which would lead to more usable
> comps, so users will be able (and more importantly encouraged) to simply use
> for example yum to install these environments. By that time, these
> environments should be cleaned up, in case user wants to install just specific
> type of devel env, not the entire "Developer Workstation"
>
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups
>
> Thanks
> Jan
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Please undo this change immediately and wait more than 2 days before
you split such a massive group of important packages.

Dan