mock and fc5/fe5 and comps pain

[seth vidal]

> Your proposal was to have mock perform the prep install from a set of 
> specially named fake packages rather than from comps groups. I believe 
> this patch allows that.
> 
> My current thinking is that I'd like to keep using the comps groups and 
> just make sure that my yum and my repos and in alignment. This patch 
> allows that.
> 

two questions:
 1. what does giving this option buy us? Other than more code to
maintain, I mean.
 2. why wouldn't you just go on using the older mock?

> ...or perhaps this is more or less what you had in mind all along, but I 
> go the impression that mock support for using groups was in danger of 
> disappearing.

very much so.

-sv