[Fedora-packaging] RFC: Creating meta group packages via comps

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:47 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > *shrug* I'm not sure users want to constantly get more and more packages added 
> > to their install, vs just the existing packages updated.  Typically 
> > RHL/Fedora releases wouldn't change comps for the duration of the release, 
> > but with Extras and new packages being added all the time, comps can get 
> > updated.  Blindly adding new packages to a user's install isn't the way, 
> > perhaps if the user launches pirut it can notice that new packages have been 
> > added to the pool and do a interesting popup or a window that says "new 
> > packages added to the pool:
> > foo in group Bar
> > baz in group Zing
> > 
> > and let the USER decide if they want to add those packages or not.
> 
> So, to do this you'd need to keep track of the *previous* state of the
> comps and do (essentially) a diff. The metadata at the moment isn't
> set to store this information.
> 
> Napkin-ing this, you'd compare it, see the new packages, and then
> pop up:
> 
>  New software available in the 'Games' group:
> 
>    GnomePoker - Play poker against your friends! Lose all your money!
>    HackSlashKillMaim - Role play as your favorite serial killer
>    
>  [ Don't install ] [ Tell me more ] [ Ask me later ] [ Install new packages ]
> 
> or something along those lines.

You should be able to just run groupinstall again and it will only
install the new stuff in that comps group. 

-sv