[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy

Thu Sep 27 13:05:26 CEST 2012

On 27/09/12 11:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+> Le 27/09/12 10:51,Pascal Terjan nous adresse ces quelques mots :
+>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Pierre-Malo Deniélou
+>>> For PulseAudio, Sound/Mixer is fine.
+>>
+>> I don't agree
+>> If someone wants to install a mixer, pulesaudio in the list will
+>> probably confuse him
+>
+> As I was saying earlier, no group classification is perfect. In the
+> situation you describe, having pulseaudio in System/Base would be even
+> more confusing. But if you were to choose between Sound/Editors and
+> Convertors, Sound/Midi, Sound/Mixers, Sound/Players, Sound/Utilities,
+> Sound/Visualization, where would you look first?
+>
+> You know none fits perfectly, I know that as well, even less for
+> pulseaudio-module-jack or pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.
+>
+> But before everyting was in Sound: so confusing is maximum. Now it
+> becomes a bit (but only a bit) easier. That's the point.
+>
+>>>> Or perhaps PA should just go in System/Base?
+>>>
+>>> No. It only drowns it in the crowd of completely unrelated packages.
+>>
+>> Do you expect someone to want to manually install pulseaudio after
+>> removing it, and search it in mixers?
+>
+> Yes. By the principle of "Where else?" :-)
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+Can it not stay in the top level "Sound" or does everything *have* to be 
+in a sub group?
+