Extras repodata

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On 24/10/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> wrote:
> Indeed it is. It would be useful if there were some way for a package
> owner to specify the group it belongs to. And no, the Groups tag is
> *not* an effective way of doing so. At least, not with the values we're
> currently restricted to.
>
> Since the Groups tag is obsolescent, why can't we use that to specify
> the package group instead?

Partly because there is more information required than provided by the
Group tag. E.g. a package can be a member of more than one group, and
can have such attributes as "required" in it.

I think we just need to make "editing the group file" step required as
part of the "New package process."

Regards,
--
Konstantin Ryabitsev
http://www.mricon.com/