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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy</H1>
<B>Remco Rijnders</B>
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<I>Sat Sep 8 14:29:45 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 01:13:22AM +0100, Pierre-Malo wrote in
<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">504A8DA2.5030408 at rhul.ac.uk</A>>:
><i>Hi all,
</I>><i>
</I>><i>I'm writing about the current rpm group policy:
</I>><i><A HREF="http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy">http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i>In this list, there are some groups that contain only a handful of
</I>><i>packages while some others are in the hundreds. It sometimes makes it
</I>><i>very hard to use rpmdrake (or other tools) to browse the packages. It is
</I>><i>not a bug per se, but rather an interface issue, particularly with
</I>><i>inexperienced users.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>My interest lies in particular in the Development/Other group. It is
</I>><i>currently a mess, mixing up programming tools with libraries and
</I>><i>compilers for the non-major programming languages. Among them, there are
</I>><i>now 300 packages for OCaml-related packages. I propose we create a
</I>><i>Development/OCaml group for them.
</I>><i>I also noticed that despite our policy not having a Development/Tools
</I>><i>rpm group, some packages started using it (I guess because Fedora and
</I>><i>Suse have a Development/Tools group). I think this is a good idea and we
</I>><i>could move there various tools currently in Development/Other like cvs,
</I>><i>subversion (and all vcs), valgrind, make, autoconf, etc.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>If you agree, I will amend our
</I>><i><A HREF="http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy">http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy</A>
</I>><i>with these two changes
</I>><i>and get in touch with the appropriate packagers/maintainers to do the
</I>><i>group change (which is a trivial spec change).
</I>
Hi Malo,
I am in agreement with your proposal above, but I think the RPM groups
policy need a wider overhaul. For examples, I miss categories for
scheduling and productivity, as well as a category for personal finances,
etc.
As these changes also mean an update to our rpmlint package, I think it is
best if someone drafts up a list of the needed changes and presents that
in an upcoming dev team meeting for sanctioning.
Remmy
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