New Comps Groups

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Nov 30 19:51:34 UTC 2006


Le jeudi 30 novembre 2006 à 13:45 -0500, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:29, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > I would say that apt and smart's UI would not suffer from a
> > migration to comps provided that comps lists all the packages in the
> > repository.
> 
> Why do all packages have to be listed in comps?  The grouping metadata can 
> list packages being in some groups, and then if a package isn't in any group, 
> the tool (apt/smart) could represent that as 'Ungrouped' or however you want 
> to phrase it.

Why to you want to impose the policy of one user of this file (anaconda)
on others ?

Defining groups for anaconda use and lumping everything else in an
anaconda-does-not-care limbo is not the answer. The answer is to
categorise everything, and let apps define the filtering they want
separately.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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