Announcing rpmfusion

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Sep 12 18:27:44 UTC 2007


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> 
> 
> On 12.09.2007 18:12, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12.09.2007 17:44, Bill Crawford wrote:
>>>> On 12/09/2007, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   Couldn't this be managed by rpmfusion using a comps file, and
>>>>>   grouping
>>>>> various packages with "DVD support," "MP3 support," or whatnot?  `yum
>>>>> groupinstall "DVD Support"`...
>>>> I think that's the best suggestion on how to balance packaging versus
>>>> usability, so far ...
>>> FYI for Livna I tried something else, but it didn't work out. I just
>>> used the same groups as Fedora in Livna (as Fedora Extras did in the
>>> past for Core as well) and made some crucial packages 'type="default"'
>>> -- for example gstreamer-plugins-ugly for the "GNOME Desktop
>>> Environment" . I assumed anaconda would then install
>>> gstreamer-plugins-ugly by default as "GNOME Desktop Environment" is
>>> selected by default. But anaconda/pirut did not do that (and I assume it
>>> still don't).
>> At our site,
> 
> kde-redhat?

@ UNL.

We add items to various groups, say, kde-desktop, and then
$ yum groupinstall kde-desktop
not only includes the fedora items, but our added ones as well.

-- Rex




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