[Fedora-packaging] Package Groups / "Meta-Packages"

[Jon Ciesla]

> Hello,
>
> Firstly I hope this is the right place to ask this!!
>
> I have been having a discussion on the Fedora SciTech mailing list and we
> thought that someone on here might be able to offer us some advice / a
> solution!
>
> In discussing the packages to include in a Fedora scientific spin, I
> suggested that it might be worth while including the dependencies for IDL
> (Interactive Data Language) which is a widely used proprietary data
> analysis
> and visualisation package. (As much as I would rather just use Python this
> is not really possible.)
>
> I suggested that perhaps some kind of package group or "meta package"
> could
> be created that would hold all the dependencies for IDL making the install
> process easier, if all the dependencies were not included by default .
> (see
> http://goo.gl/6a7jM for a list of the deps)

So long as they meet our licensing guidlelines, there's nothing preventing
including of the required pacakges.  Since IDL is proprietary, I don't
think a meta-package in Fedora is appropriate, but you could distribute
this yourself for your use and that of others.

-J

> Does such a mechanism exist within the packaging framework for Fedora and
> if
> so how easy is it to create and maintain such a package?
>
> Thanks
> Stuart
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