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+ <B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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+ <I>Thu Sep 27 11:51:54 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Pierre-Malo Deni&#233;lou
+&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pierre-malo.denielou at rhul.ac.uk</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> Le 27/09/12 10:04,Colin Guthrie nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Just ran into my first practical problem and would like your feedback.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I'm guessing your email is just the first of a long list :-).
+</I>&gt;<i> The new RPM group will indeed cause some head scratching for many packages.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> PulseAudio packages used to just be in &quot;Sound&quot; group, but now I have to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> sub-categorise them as Sound/*. This is fine and I put everything in the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Sound/Mixer category for now as this is one of the tasks PA does, mix
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> your audio, but I get the feeling this group was more designed to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> represent graphical mixer UIs rather than infrastructure level stuff.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> RPM groups are for users, not necessarily technical users (technical
+</I>&gt;<i> users already know which packages interest them).
+</I>&gt;<i> So the main advice to find the category of a given package is:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Where would it make sense for a user browsing through a list to find it?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> For PulseAudio, Sound/Mixer is fine.
+</I>
+I don't agree
+If someone wants to install a mixer, pulesaudio in the list will
+probably confuse him
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+&gt;&gt;<i> Or perhaps PA should just go in System/Base?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> No. It only drowns it in the crowd of completely unrelated packages.
+</I>
+Do you expect someone to want to manually install pulseaudio after
+removing it, and search it in mixers?
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