[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Mon Sep 10 23:23:48 CEST 2012

Le 10/09/12 11:53,Barry Jackson nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+> On 08/09/12 19:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+> 
+>>
+>> Any other suggestions for the groups?
+>>
+> 
+> 
+> gnuradio is development software for "software enabled radio", so
+> Communications/Development
+> 
+> Amateur Radio is needed as a group for packages like grig and xlog,
+> so maybe:
+> Communications/Amateur Radio
+> 
+> cutecw is a Morse Code trainer aimed at radio amateurs so:
+> Communications/Amateur Radio/Education
+> 
+> zoneminder is currently in Video which is rather cluttered.
+> I think Video needs sub-groups like:-
+> Video/Players
+> Video/Editors
+> Video/Security
+> Video/Format converters
+> Video/Plug-ins
+
+Doing changes like this would mean to go towards a more Suse-like
+system, with hundreds of rpm package groups that each contain a few
+packages.
+That is one option, but it requires to updates the specs of several
+thousands packages.
+
+My proposal is more limited:
+- let's split the groups that have obviously too many different packages
+(Development/Other is an example) to the point that it is unpractical to
+browse.
+- let's create a handful of categories that (1) make sense for packages
+that are currently in unrelated groups (motivated by security software
+for example); and (2) complete existing subdivisions (so as not to have
+to change the spec of too many packages)
+
+Only creating a few groups also lessens the burden for icons and
+translations.
+
+With that in mind, I'm not sure this is a good idea to get so
+fine-grained categories in Video, or communications, especially if it's
+just for one package.
+Maybe if we create a Security group, things like zoneminder can go
+there. For amateur radio, in communication it's fine IMHO.
+Communications has 138 packages, so it's reasonable.
+
+> Also, why has gpg got it's own top level 'Public Keys' group which
+> clutters rpmdrake - surely this should be somewhere down the System/..
+> hierarchy?
+
+The public key thing does not correspond to a rpm group. It's a rpmdrake
+GUI choice of how to display keys AFAICT. Feel free to suggest to tv
+another choice for the display :-).
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+