Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Tue Dec 9 14:26:10 UTC 2003


Le mar 09/12/2003 à 14:51, Panu Matilainen a écrit :
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > Le mar 09/12/2003 à 07:42, seth vidal a écrit :
> > > > ..and with apt you can use apt-groupinstall from contrib of the apt-rpm
> > > > distribution, it'll use the comps.xml from your system and then you can
> > > > say 
> > > > 
> > > > apt-get groupinstall "some group here"
> > 
> > What I'd be interested in is some standard way of distributing group
> > descriptors.
> > 
> > Build-in comps.xml is all yummy and all, but it's too static for most
> > usages and do not allow any customisation or extra-core packages.
> 
> comps.xml (or very similar) is part of the common repository format
> project. If you need something right now.. well, take the comps/group.xml
> merge code from yum, fit into the lua-python helper and voila we have that
> in apt too :)

Well, I was thinking more about kickstart-like custom comps.xml bits.
Though having it in the repository metadata would help a lot too.

Anyway, I'm not complaining, just stating wishes like everyone here.
Take whatever time you need to get something you like;)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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