Valid Group names

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu May 5 22:24:27 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:20 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:06:44PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > I think I am missing the obvious, but is there a page in the Wiki with
> > > the valid Group names that can be used when creating packages? 
> > /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/GROUPS
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RPMGroups
> 
> It's kind of a weird list -- anything remotely related to math or science
> ends up getting lumpted into "Applications/Engineering".
> 
> Personally, I think the list should be reduced to:
> 
>  Core
>  Extras
> 
> .
> 
> For various reasons, it's been found to be more useful to keep the updated
> version of this metainformation externally -- in comps.xml and the (same
> format) yum groupfiles. Given that that's the case, having this
> slightly-askew list of round-peg-square-hole categories in the RPM itself
> ought to go.

<nod>

or better yet 86 the group list.

-sv





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