[Mageia-dev] Importing RPM Groups

Sun Jan 9 11:54:37 CET 2011

Le dimanche 9 janvier 2011 10:49:19, Remy CLOUARD a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> I just imported the RPM Groups page into the wiki.
+> 
+> I verified the list was complete with what rpmlint returns as valid RPM
+> groups.
+> 
+> Maybe some groups are obsolete, others could be created
+> 
+> Proposal for removal:
+> Graphical desktop/FVWM based (only one entry)
+> Graphical desktop/Sawfish (only one entry)
+> 
+> Proposal for creation:
+> Development/Haskell
+> Development/OCaml
+> Graphical desktop/LXDE
+> Networking/Chat (merge with Instant Messaging)
+> Sound/Players (because listening to music and creating it is a very
+> different thing IMHO)
+> Sound/Editors
+> Sound/Other
+> 
+> WDYT ?
+> 
+> Regards,
+
+I think groups may need a bigger rework than just those changes. To me, 
+package groups should be as close as possible as menu entries (for graphical 
+packages), but maybe that would be too few groups ?
+
+In fact, debian has some advance upon us on this, by the use of debtags. We 
+could maybe simplify grouping if we could put some information in tags rather 
+than in groups.
+
+I don't know if there are cross-distributions efforts to harmonize package 
+groups, but that would be an interesting subject to tackle in the upcoming 
+meeting in Nürnberg.
+
+More questions than answers :)
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+