[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Sat Dec 18 20:01:19 CET 2010

A wizard sounds like a good idea....
+
+are there any howtos on Wizards for M??
+
+greetings, sascha
+
+2010/12/18 Michael scherer <misc at zarb.org>
+
+> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:03:36AM +0100, SaschaS wrote:
+> > So I see basically that we need a guidline on how mageia deals with
+> Spinoffs
+> > first.
+> >
+> > If all task are in the repos, I can understand those who say that there
+> are
+> > to many task.
+>
+> The problem is not that there is too much more than the consequence of the
+> high number of task-*.
+>
+> rpmdrake, who is the main consumer of task-* rpm
+> convention, show all of them as 1 single list. So basically, with lots of
+> tasks-
+> rpm, you just have a big unsorted list of category. Obviously not good for
+> endusers.
+>
+> While it would be useful to group task into sound category, for the moment,
+> we cannot. One way would be to encode this information in the name ( ie,
+> decide
+> that task-sound-foo and task-sound-bar are part of the sound category ).
+>
+> I am not sure that using the name for this is a good idea. It is quite
+> poor,
+> in term of metadata, and that's still a tree structure, while may a tag
+> based
+> one may be better ( like Debian do, for example ).
+>
+> More ever, it doesn't make much sense to have task-lamp-* task-nagios and
+> task-kde4
+> at the same level, they are not destined at the same public.
+>
+> Not to mention that installing rpm is ust half of the solution,
+> configuration is
+> the other one. While we can to some extend push configuration in the rpm,
+> there
+> is some that we cannot do reliably ( like adding a user to a group ).
+>
+> So maybe a wizard is a better solution than using a rpm that does magically
+> everything.
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
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