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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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<I>Sat Sep 8 14:39:57 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 8 September 2012 14:29, Remco Rijnders <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">remco at webconquest.com</A>> wrote:
>><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>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Hi Malo,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I am in agreement with your proposal above, but I think the RPM groups
</I>><i> policy need a wider overhaul. For examples, I miss categories for scheduling
</I>><i> and productivity, as well as a category for personal finances, etc.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> As these changes also mean an update to our rpmlint package, I think it is
</I>><i> best if someone drafts up a list of the needed changes and presents that in
</I>><i> an upcoming dev team meeting for sanctioning.
</I>
Yes it may be better.
_Then_, we'll need to update
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