Comps, or, Making it Easier for Users to Find Software

[Hans de Goede]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> With FC5 on the way and the advent of the repo-aware replacement for
> system-config-packages (pirut), we're now in a much better position for
> making it easy for users to gain access to applications.
> 
> So, you might ask, what can I do to help?  Well, if you maintain an
> application which makes sense for a user to select[1], check out the
> comps module and make sure that your package is listed in a reasonable
> group in the comps-fe5.xml.in file.  If it's not, feel free to add it
> using the following as a template if your package were named "foo":
>   <packagereq type="optional">foo</packagereq>
> If you think there needs to be a new group, please let me know.
> 
> We'll eventually have the file being automatically updated with each
> Extras push -- for now, it's a manual process for me to drop the updated
> file in.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> [1] So, what criteria makes sense here?  In general, it's going to be
> applications which show up in the menus somewhere.  Libraries should
> almost *never* be explicitly listed and instead pulled in via
> dependencies.  Also, most text-mode utilities don't really fit in unless
> they have a pretty large established user-base.  Given that the primary
> use is with a GUI, selecting a lot of text-mode things make little
> sense.  If you have questions as to whether it makes sense or not, feel
> free to contact me.
> 

Where should packages like bochs, qemu, wine (and once its packaged) 
freedos be? Maybe we need an emulator group?


Wine is currently under system tools but that does not seem right.

Regards,

Hans