[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Mon Nov 8 23:51:48 CET 2010

On lundi 08 novembre 2010 at 21:06, Tux99 wrote :
+> > I'm not against, however how can we define those groups ? Is there a
+> > way to automate it ? Is it necessary to define it manually (and so to
+> > maintain it so have maintainers of these groups definitions) ?
+> 
+> This could be implemented based on common source RPM. Basically all 
+> packages that are derived from the same source RPM would be shown as 
+> children (folded away by default). We would just need to have a way to 
+> define which package is the master package that is shown.
+
+I think that is too restrictive.
+
+For example we have some firefox extensions (firefox-ext-*) which are 
+(almost) all built from their own source RPM, but I guess we would want 
+those packages folded under firefox.
+
+Same goes for all the plasmoïds available as plasma-applet-* paqkages, 
+although I don't know under which package those should be folded, maybe 
+under an empty meta-package plasma-applets which would have suggestions for 
+the most common plasmoïds?
+
+Maybe we could have a special dependency which would be marked as the 
+"master dependency" under which the packages would be folded?
+Or a special RPM tag, which could be either another package name, or any 
+name under which the packages would be grouped. With, for the latter, would 
+be visually distinguished (for example displayed in italic) from real, 
+installable packages.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+