New Comps Groups

[Paul Howarth]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:59:57PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> The only underlying objection I recall seeing is that adding all 
>> packages to comps presents too many choices to users, and that problem 
>> doesn't happen if hidden groups are used; did I miss some other reason?
> 
> I think there is also the time used in editing comps file. Maybe this also
> could be alleviated by generating some parts of the comps file automatically
> (for perl, python modules, and -devel packages, for example).

The editing of the comps file is a one-time thing though (first import 
time) really, that goes along with the editing of owners.list, importing 
the SRPM into cvs etc. Not a big deal once the backlog of existing 
packages was cleared I'd have thought.

Paul.