Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue May 26 16:11:40 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:15 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Can we please not remove the Group tag, it is actually quite usefull.
>> What we need to remove / loose is comps. Having all this info in a
>> centralized database is stupid. The spec files should tell which
>> group(s) the package belongs in. So that when one adds a new package,
>> this gets done right more or less automatically (and is part of the
>> review).
ACK. Instead of abandoning rpm-Groups, it should be strengthened and 
comps be made strictly optional.

> Defining groups in the package is broken because different consumers of
> of the packages may wish to group those packages in different ways.
> When you define it in the package, you have to rebuild the package just
> to change how they're grouped.  That's one of the big reasons why
> grouping should be done outside of the packages.

Comps and Groups are addressing completely different issues.






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