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After that, I will change +</I>><i> the groups myself +</I>><i> * mail -dev about the packages that are correct with respect to +</I>><i> current policy but need to be updated to respect the new policy. +</I>><i> For these packages, the deadline will be beta1 (12/12) to complete +</I>><i> the changes, which means that I will start doing the moves by +</I>><i> myself by Alpha 3 (06/11). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I will mail -dev at each step on the way, so don't worry too much now. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I hope the new RPM groups will make it easier for everyone to find +</I>><i> packages in rpmdrake and other tools. It will be a bit annoying for +</I>><i> every packager, but it's a good opportunity to revisit many package +</I>><i> specs before mga3 and make Mageia better. +</I> + +Just ran into my first practical problem and would like your feedback. + +PulseAudio packages used to just be in "Sound" group, but now I have to +sub-categorise them as Sound/*. This is fine and I put everything in the +Sound/Mixer category for now as this is one of the tasks PA does, mix +your audio, but I get the feeling this group was more designed to +represent graphical mixer UIs rather than infrastructure level stuff. + + +Should there be a group that represents this better? e.g. + +Sound/Plumbing +System/Sound +Plumbing/Sound + +Or perhaps PA should just go in System/Base? + +(I use the term Plumbing as this is quite common these days as an off +shoot perhaps from the Linux Plumbers Conference where the various +infrastructural bits of linux are discussed). + +Thoughts? + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="018964.html">[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018979.html">[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#18977">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#18977">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#18977">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#18977">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |