[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy

Wed Sep 26 23:48:02 CEST 2012

Le 26/09/12 22:42,Anssi Hannula nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+> 27.09.2012 00:27, Charles A Edwards kirjoitti:
+>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:17:29 +0100
+>> Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+>>
+>>>>> The current policy is described at:
+>>>>> http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
+>>>>>
+>>>>> The new policy is presented at:
+>>>>> http://wiki.mageia.org/en/Feature:RPMGroupRevamp  
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> What about xdg menu compliance?  
+>>>
+>>> There is already a policy in place, and automated checks that enforce
+>>> it. Everyone seems happy with it, so it does not change :-).
+>>
+>> Yes, but you will now be creating entries that Are Not 
+>> registered categories 
+> 
+> RPM groups are not related to menu categories in any way.
+
+The RPM groups are seen only in rpmdrake (and smart and Mageia App Db),
+as far as I understand. And they are package-based.
+
+.desktop files (which are for menu entries) are for the desktop
+applications. So one package can have several .desktop files (for each
+application it contains) or none.
+
+They are in effect unrelated. There was however a proposal to base the
+new RPM groups on the freedektop standard for menu classification, but
+it seems not to be a possibility (mainly because packages <> applications).
+
+Cheers,
+-- 
+Malo
+