[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Sun Sep 9 04:25:36 CEST 2012

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> wrote:
+> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
+>> On Saturday 08 September 2012 20:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+>>>  * Games/First Person Shooters (or simply Games/Shoot)
+>>
+>> Why not simply "Games/Action" ?
+>> That will also include all kinds of action games, both shooters and none shooters alike.
+>>
+>
+> Well then in that case put them all in Games/Other that already exist
+> and that's it. The idea is to be able to find "First Person Shooter"
+> like games, and we have already a lot of them (10+), IMO they deserve
+> their own category.
+
+Some data about Other groups that may need new categories:
+
+$ urpmf --qf '%group' . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep Other
+   2345 Development/Other
+    716 Networking/Other
+    366 Graphical desktop/Other
+    318 Books/Other
+    214 System/Configuration/Other
+    158 Games/Other
+     72 Sciences/Other
+     20 Archiving/Other
+
+And more generally:
+
+$ urpmf --qf '%group' . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
+   5994 Development/Perl
+   5469 System/Libraries
+   5412 Development/Java
+   2345 Development/Other
+   2214 Development/C
+   1354 System/Internationalization
+   1064 Development/PHP
+   1018 Development/Ruby
+   1016 System/Servers
+    896 Development/Python
+    716 Networking/Other
+    698 Sound
+    696 Graphical desktop/KDE
+    653 Networking/WWW
+    579 Video
+    560 Databases
+    552 System/Kernel and hardware
+    546 Development/X11
+    522 Development/KDE and Qt
+    446 Text tools
+    430 Graphics
+    424 Office
+    410 Development/C++
+    366 Graphical desktop/Other
+    338 Networking/Mail
+    324 Networking/Instant messaging
+    322 Development/GNOME and GTK+
+    318 Books/Other
+    313 System/X11
+    313 Games/Arcade
+    284 Monitoring
+    258 System/Base
+    230 Publishing
+    223 File tools
+    222 Graphical desktop/GNOME
+    214 System/Configuration/Other
+    160 Books/Computer books
+    158 Games/Other
+    158 Education
+    150 System/Fonts/True type
+    148 Graphical desktop/Xfce
+    138 Communications
+    136 Editors
+    134 System/Configuration/Packaging
+    128 System/Printing
+    128 Networking/Remote access
+    114 Networking/File transfer
+    114 Games/Strategy
+    108 Networking/IRC
+    100 Archiving/Backup
+     94 Sciences/Mathematics
+     74 Sciences/Geosciences
+     72 Sciences/Other
+     71 System/Configuration/Hardware
+     70 Games/Boards
+     64 System/Configuration/Networking
+     64 Sciences/Computer science
+     62 Development/Kernel
+     57 Emulators
+     52 Graphical desktop/WindowMaker
+     48 Graphical desktop/Enlightenment
+     48 Games/Puzzles
+     48 Development/Databases
+     46 Documentation
+     44 Archiving/Compression
+     44 Accessibility
+     40 System/Cluster
+     38 Terminals
+     38 Sciences/Chemistry
+     36 Shells
+     32 Toys
+     30 Networking/News
+     30 Archiving/Cd burning
+     26 System/Configuration/Boot and Init
+     26 Games/Cards
+     24 Games/Adventure
+     20 Sciences/Physics
+     20 Archiving/Other
+     18 Development/Libraries
+     14 Sciences/Astronomy
+     14 Books/Howtos
+     10 System/Fonts/X11 bitmap
+     10 Sciences/Biology
+     10 Networking/Chat
+     10 Graphical desktop/Icewm
+     10 Development/Tools
+      8 System/Fonts/Type1
+      6 Games/Sports
+      4 System/Configuration/Printing
+      2 Graphical desktop/FVWM based
+      2 Development/Debug
+      2 Development
+
+Looking at Development/Other:
+
+$ urpmf --group Development/Other | cut -d: -f1 | cut -d- -f1 | sort |
+uniq -c | sort -nr | head
+    558 ocaml
+    120 gambas3
+    120 erlang
+     50 mono
+     26 harbour
+     24 lua
+     22 php
+     20 perl
+     20 juffed
+     20 eclipse
+
+So, ocaml, erlang and basic seem to need a category
+