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

[Tim Lauridsen]

James Antill wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 19:05 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> 
>> The groups in comps.xml is used as meta-packages, there can be installed 
>> and removed. just like yum groupinstall/groupremove.
> 
>  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
> 

in the pk yum backend a "meta package" the same as a yum group.

InstallPackages('x-software-development;meta;meta;meta')

will do the same as 'yum install @x-software-development"

but on other package managers it can be something else.

>  But then 0.3.2 is still doing utterly broken direct SQL calls, and
> failing *sigh*.
> 
it is fixed in 0.3.3

Tim