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

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:03:16PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > Adding a tag or modifying the use of the tag is tricky.
> 
> Agreed in general. I don't think that this particular modification would be
> that far reaching, given that it's mostly not used these days and given that
> it is an arbitrary-text field. It wouldn't be an rpm-level change, just a
> spec file creation policy one. Mixing RPMs between distros already doesn't
> work for a variety of more sigificant reasons.
> 
> I think the worst case would be that any application which look at
> "Applications/Internet" and "Applications/Archiving", etc. and construct an
> "Applications" hierarchy -- when such an app sees "Web Browser; X11; Typical
> Desktop; Internet Terminal", it's probably going to create a lot of ugly
> top-level entries. 
> 
> 
> > yum and rpm are not just fedora things so modifications from here to
> > things have to do with the spec and hence the rpm is tricky.
> 
> But Fedora RPMs are (basically) Fedora things, yeah?
> 
> > so for simplicity sake - stick with an external file.
> 
> How many external files, though? One per repository? One per component? One
> per rpm (gah!)?

one per repository and its contents should be agreed on by the repo
maintainer and/or package providers.

-sv