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

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:59 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, that's the problematic thing here. For example, when the
> > currently existing comps.xml was made, some of the stuff was easy
> > (all Games grouped together, Development Tools, etc.)
> > 
> > However, that only accounts for a subset of packages. Realistically,
> > random libraries shouldn't be listed, except perhaps for the -devel
> > pacakge in one of the development library groups. And some of the
> > packages defy simple categorization, unless you have a group for each
> > package. Which... no.
> 
> For grins, I started with the FC 4 comps.xml, stripped out all the 
> internationalized descriptions (just to make it readable / shorter -- they 
> can be added back later), and made a comps for all the packages beginning 
> with "a" from FE devel. See attached.
> 
> General rules I followed:
> 
> * didn't create any new groups
> * only listed libraries that seemed reasonably general
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> * categorization takes longer than you'd expect ;-)
> * there are some categories which seem overly broad; system-tools for 
> example could be broken up more
> * some stuff didn't fit any existing categories (allegro-tools, for one)
> 

Here's the way I've always thought it would work well to break up extras
into groups.

download all of extras into a dir
then start making subdirs of divisions you think make sense and move
files into those dirs
then index over those dirs and assemble the file that way.

-sv