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[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 17.03.2005 kl. 04.21 skrev seth vidal:
> > Seth, have you looked at Karel's example? It does have more:
> > 
> 
> i'd like to look at the code :)
> 
> 
> > Example usage of Karel's view: browsing by package groups shows that
> > there is a "User Interface/Desktop" group with only one package -
> > gnome-keyring-manager. Shouldn't it be like many other packages in "User
> > Interface/Desktops" group? Click on "bugzilla" link while viewing
> > gnome-keyring-manager page queries bugzilla where one can clearly see
> > that this issue is reported as bug #147903: "Group tag inconsistency".
> > Very nice feature!
> 
> in general rpmgroups should be dropped. They're just this side of
> useless for classification.
> 
> -sv

They are usefull when browsing for apps in programs such as synaptic
(when you don't know exactly which app to install, you just want to try
out a few and pick the one you like best. Games are a common usage for
that ;) )