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

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 21:13 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> James Antill <james.antill <at> redhat.com> writes:
> >  But that's not how groupinstall/groupremove works! Groups are _very_
> > different from meta-packages, for instance:
> > 
> > yum shell <<EOL
> > install @x-software-development
> > remove libXaw-devel
> > run
> > EOL
> > 
> > ...at the end of this the 'X Software Development' group is not
> > installed.
> 
> .. and that's exactly why tristates are needed.

 You want installed: yes/no/maybe?

 IMNSHO it'd be _much_ better to just treat groups as collections of
packages (in the UI) instead of trying to convince the user they are
real objects they can manipulate in some way.

-- 
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora