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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy</H1>
<B>Pierre-Malo Deniélou</B>
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<I>Sun Sep 16 16:44:44 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Le 10/09/12 14:<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">50,brian.smith at blueyonder.co.uk</A> nous adresse ces quelques
mots :
><i> I'll stick my 2p in as a user
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</I>><i> How about the package groups relate to the menu entries in Gnome
</I>><i> and KDE.
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Hi Brian, I forgot to answer you.
Thanks for your suggestion. It's a possibility as well.
The standard desktop categories are:
<A HREF="http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html">http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html</A>
I didn't consider it as a first proposal for two reasons:
- It is designed for applications that have a menu entry. So it needs
to be amended for all non-GUI packages: it means we do not follow
strictly the standard.
- These categories are completely different from the current RPM
groups. It means *all* of Mageia packages need to be changed.
The advantages:
- It makes it easier to have only one classification policy.
- It is a standard (although not for packages, but still).
- Users can make more sense of it, since the menu and rpm group match
- Icons already exist
So this is a possible alternative, but requires even more commitment
from the packagers.
--
Malo
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