How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 20 19:55:24 UTC 2008
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> Comps.xml is afaics mainly used in anaconda (and thus indirectly in
> tools like pungi that rely on anaconda) and yum (if you know what to do)
> these days; PackageKit afaics doesn't use it much (or does it use
> comps.xml at all? Will that change?); it just lists everything it finds
> afaics (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not using PackageKit much and just
> use yum directly).
PackageKit does use it via the yum backend.
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/09/19/packagekit-collections/
Rahul
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