[Fedora-packaging] RFC: Creating meta group packages via comps

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:13 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It should be really easy to make a script that builds metagroup
> packages from comps, no?
> 
> This will allow someone to install a group such as kde/gnome as an rpm
> package and when packages are removed/added/changed in the comps
> groups, the meta group package also changes, and the user gets the
> appropriate changes.
> 
> I don't think this is possible now with the groupinstall feature in
> yum which IMO is a bad feature since it should be done with meta group
> packages as I describe.

So you want to make packages based on what is in comps?

Whats the point of that if we can just read the comps information
itself?
-sv