[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

Sun Sep 16 16:23:01 CEST 2012

Le 08/09/12 01:13,Pierre-Malo Deniélou nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+> Hi all,
+> 
+> I'm writing about the current rpm group policy:
+> http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+
+Hi again,
+
+After a few days of thinking, I wrote a proposal in the form of Feature.
+You can have a look at the following wiki page:
+
+http://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RPMGroupRevamp
+
+At the end you can see the current RPM groups, with the number of
+packages they contain (in x86_64 with i586 activated). On the right is
+the current version of the proposal.
+
+The main changes are so far:
+
+- Remove Books/* -> everything in Documentation
+  * Reason: All books currently in Mageia are documentations of some
+    kind
+- Add several Development/* to reduce Development/Other
+  * Reason Development/Other is cluttered with various programming
+    languages and development tools.
+- Add Games/Shooter to reduce Games/Arcade and Games/Other
+- Split Office into Office/Dictionary, Office/Finance, ...
+- Split Sound into Sound/Editors and Convertors, Sound/Midi, ...
+- Split Video into Video/Editors and Convertors, Video/Players, ...
+
+The last problems that I think need addressing are:
+
+1) Graphical Desktop/FVWM based contains only fvwm2:
+  * Should we leave it like this
+  * Or should we delete the group and move fvwm2 to Graphical
+Desktop/Other ?
+
+2) Graphics has 441 packages currently:
+  * Should we leave it like this
+  * Or should we split it into
+     + Graphics/Editor
+     + Graphics/Convertors
+     + Graphics/Viewers
+     + Graphics/Other
+  * Or any other idea?
+
+3) System/Server has 1016 packages, from daemons to web, FTP, DNS, chat,
+... servers, as well as Web applications.
+  * Should we leave it like this
+  * Or should we split the different Networking subgroups into
+    + Networking/*/Client
+    + Networking/*/Server
+    + Networking/*/Utilities
+    with maybe Networking/WWW/Browser instead of Client and
+    Networking/WWW/Web Applications
+  * Or any other idea?
+
+Please have a look at http://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RPMGroupRevamp
+and comment on the list (rather than directly modifying the wiki page).
+Please also give your opinion about the 3 remaining issues above. If you
+have any other issue with some other categories, just tell me.
+
+The goal is that rpmdrake and mageia App Db get easier to browse for
+technical and non-technical users. I think that categories with more
+than a few hundreds packages are too big (unless specifically addresses
+to technical users, like Development/* or System/*).
+
+I hope we can discuss this proposal at the next packager meeting.
+
+Thanks,
+-- 
+Malo
+