xmms release number

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Wed Oct 1 13:06:14 UTC 2003


Quoting seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>:

> 
> > Synaptic uses (rpm) groups to organize the package tree view - typos in
> rpm
> > groups show up really nicely there :) Things like
> > 
> > Application/Multimedia
> >     + somedvdplayer
> > Applications/Multimedia
> >     + multimediaplayer1
> >     + multimediaplayer2
> >     + ..etc
> > 
> 
> yah - the groups are fairly static wrt what rpmlint believes are
> 'correct' groups.

..except what rpmlint thinks are "correct" groups is miles longer a list than
what's in GROUPS as distributed with rpm.

> 
> > Yup, many packages don't have a real match in the "official" rpm group list
> at
> > all and others could be put into one of several groups, typically things
> like
> > python modules: is this System Environment/Libraries, Development/Libraries
> or
> > Development/Languages .. when it fits to all of those.
> 
> That's one of the reasons why I thought keywords would be handy (in my
> original post)

Yup and I wholeheartedly agree keywords would be really nice.

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    - Panu -





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