package functionality - is it a core feature?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:51 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > My suggestion is that we have default package sets for the common use
> > cases (mail server, desktop, java dev workstation, etc.) and their union
> > is Core. Is that broken?
> 
> i don't think it's broken at all. debian does something similar in that it 
> groups packages into 'tasks', and you can decide at install time which tasks you 
> want to install (database server, python development, documentation tools, X, 
> workstation, etc.)
> 
> something similar might work for fc5, but imo fc5 need not comprise the entire 
> union of all the tasks. just thinking out loud here...

How is this any different than the way comps handles arbitrary grouping
right now?

-sv