How important is comps.xml to us these days? Which packages should be in comps.xml and which not?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 21:05:41 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:55 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> 
> Those "arbitrary" classifications are what Fedora maintainers work hard to keep 
> up to date and complete, unlike your incomplete hardcoded classifications in 
> PackageKit which are truly arbitrary and do not reflect how Fedora intends to 
> categorize its packages.

What makes you think that the comps classifications are less arbitrary ?
And isn't one of the original motivations for this thread that many
packagers are exactly _not_ doing that hard work ?!





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