the cost of defining new yum groups?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jun 26 09:01:21 UTC 2009


On 06/26/2009 02:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   is there any noticeable cost to defining new yum groups?  and can
> different groups have an overlap?  i ask as a followup to an earlier
> post when i asked about the minimal set of packages needed to do
> docbook/xml/xslt processing.
> 
>   right now, there's an "Authoring and Publishing" group that consists
> of a fairly chaotic set of packages, pulling in stuff related to tex,
> and the scribus package, etc.
> 
>   what if someone simply wanted to install the packages needed to
> process docbook files?  can we define a new yum group for that?
> what's the protocol on suggesting new groups for fedora?

Post to fedora-devel list or if it is simple enough, file a RFE against
comps in bugzilla.

Rahul




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