rpm groups and fedora: a modest proposal

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed May 26 04:29:11 UTC 2004


> Plus I have a personal interest in doing the opposite of what you're
> suggesting. Currently the headers stored on apt and yum servers don't
> include the Group field though it would be great for people to be able
> to search by in Fedora Tracker. Thus I'm very pleased that the new XML
> metadata format does include this information. 

The yum headers and the apt headers do include this information.


The group field is too freeform. If it is to be used it needs to be
restricted.

-sv






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