http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> I think there needs to be some helpful guidelines as to what group
> definitions are going to be blessable and what packages should be
> considered manadatory,default or optional inside a group.
> 
> Requests for addiing a package to a pre-existing gorup definition as
> an optional package is just a matter of hacking the file... every
> package maintainer could do this as easily as Eric or I could until
> there is some sort of automatation available via cvs make logic. 
> There is very little room for rational argument when adding a package
> to a pre-existing group as an optional member.  Optional members are
> pulled in by default installs via s-c-p or anaconda or yum
> groupinstall afaik... so the possible negative impact to accepting all
> requests for packages as optional members of a group is minimal.

Generally, all additions to existing groups are optional, and mandatory
is only reserved for groups that are separate to Extras (for example,
mandatory could be used for packages in the XFCE group.)

Bill