[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Sat Sep 8 14:29:45 CEST 2012

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 01:13:22AM +0100, Pierre-Malo wrote in 
+<504A8DA2.5030408 at rhul.ac.uk>:
+>Hi all,
+>
+>I'm writing about the current rpm group policy:
+>http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+>
+>In this list, there are some groups that contain only a handful of
+>packages while some others are in the hundreds. It sometimes makes it
+>very hard to use rpmdrake (or other tools) to browse the packages. It is
+>not a bug per se, but rather an interface issue, particularly with
+>inexperienced users.
+>
+>My interest lies in particular in the Development/Other group. It is
+>currently a mess, mixing up programming tools with libraries and
+>compilers for the non-major programming languages. Among them, there are
+>now 300 packages for OCaml-related packages. I propose we create a
+>Development/OCaml group for them.
+>I also noticed that despite our policy not having a Development/Tools
+>rpm group, some packages started using it (I guess because Fedora and
+>Suse have a Development/Tools group). I think this is a good idea and we
+>could move there various tools currently in Development/Other like cvs,
+>subversion (and all vcs), valgrind, make, autoconf, etc.
+>
+>If you agree, I will amend our
+>http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+>with these two changes
+>and get in touch with the appropriate packagers/maintainers to do the
+>group change (which is a trivial spec change).
+
+Hi Malo,
+
+I am in agreement with your proposal above, but I think the RPM groups 
+policy need a wider overhaul. For examples, I miss categories for 
+scheduling and productivity, as well as a category for personal finances, 
+etc.
+
+As these changes also mean an update to our rpmlint package, I think it is 
+best if someone drafts up a list of the needed changes and presents that 
+in an upcoming dev team meeting for sanctioning.
+
+Remmy
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