FE Package Status of Aug 10, 2006

[Hans de Goede]

Christian Iseli wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:39:35 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> How do we handle these, blacklist them?
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> Taking a quick look, I see that most packages you described as
> (library) actually do have the keyword "library" in the owners.list
> description, so for those I could take that into account.
> 

You couldalso check the actual rpm contents, and if there is nothing 
under /[s]bin or /usr/[s]bin then not complain, I don't know hoe hard 
that would be though. The taking a look at owners.list descriptions 
definetly is a good start!

> The cmdline tools are more problematic...
> 
I agree, not even looking at the rpms helps there, which leads to the 
conclusion we really need a blacklist. Still the script could/should be 
made a bit smarter like using owners.list descriptions to keep the size 
of the blacklist down.

> (As a side note: I tend to like cmdline tools, and would like
> to see them listed in comps.xml anyway...  but maybe that's just me)
> 

I like them too, but they are for power users and comps is (AFAIK) for 
the "ordinary" end user, so I think the current policy of not putting 
them in comps.xml is correct.

Regards,

Hans