hierarchical comps groups proposal

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 6 18:57:39 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:40:34AM -0500, Jens Petersen wrote:
> I would like to suggest the idea of adding support for
> hierarchical comps groups to Fedora.

Worth noting that it _used_ to have that functionality and it was dropped.

> With the Fedora.next initiative now seems a good time to do this.
> It should probably be made a system-wide change proposal
> (I only noticed the deadline this week!)

> I would be happy to help (at least) prepare a Change proposal for
> this, specially if other people (stakeholders) are willing
> to help make this happen.

Primary stakeholders would be:

 - yum/dnf
 - anaconda (possibly insulated from this by yum? Not sure.)
 - product/spin maintainers
 - comps file maintainers
 - installation docs writers
 - users with existing kickstart files

Others?
 
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