[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Sat Sep 8 20:07:59 CEST 2012

Le 08/09/12 13:39,Thierry Vignaud nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+>> 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.
+> 
+> Yes it may be better.
+> _Then_, we'll need to update
+> http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/rpmdrake/trunk/Rpmdrake/icon.pm?view=markup
+
+True.
+
+I can draft the change proposal. Please send me your suggestions for
+improvement.
+
+As a reference point, maybe people can have a look at the two extremes:
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RPMGroups (29 groups)
+http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_group_guidelines (A lot more, 20
+just for games)
+
+So far I have suggestions for:
+
+- Creating:
+  * Development/OCaml
+  * Development/Tools
+  * Games/First Person Shooters (or simply Games/Shoot)
+
+  * some category for scheduling, productivity (?) and personal finance:
+maybe we can create subcategories of Office? (the following are inspired
+from Suse)
+  * Office/Dictionary
+  * Office/Finance
+  * Office/Management
+  * Office/Organizers
+  * Office/Other
+  * Office/Spreadsheets
+  * Office/Suite
+  * Office/Word Processor
+
+  * Security (for all security related tools: encryption, signature,
+              forensics, etc): they are currently spread around file
+- Removing:
+  * Books/Faqs (not used by any package)
+
+As Thierry mentions, these changes mostly affect rpmdrake, where icons
+and possibly translations would need to be adapted.
+I will coordinate these changes needed to rpmdrake once we agree on the
+group list.
+
+Any other suggestions for the groups?
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+