Extras repodata

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:00 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> [on Grouping]
> > the Groups tag is
> > *not* an effective way of doing so. At least, not with the values we're
> > currently restricted to.
> 
> What does it actually take to make the Group tag good and relevant? Who 
> restricts the values we can use?
> 
> There's gotta be something lurking here, else we would not be trying to 
> work around it. So... what is the real problem?

As a tag within RPM, it has defined values which it can take.  Also,
there is a strong desire to be able to set things related to the group
without having to rebuild the package (which points to the information
being external to the package)

Jeremy