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

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:15, Christopher Stone wrote:
> Puplet only does a "yum check-install" (AFAIK since this is the first
> time Ive even heard of this app).   There is absolutely nothing it
> does to check if new packages have been added to a group.  If a
> non-optional package is added to a group that no other package depends
> on, how is the user to know he needs to install this package?
>
> In addition a user may want to have all packages for a group.  For
> example I should be able to select that I want all optional games
> packages and every time a new game is added to comps, it should be
> installed on my system automatically.  puplet does not do this AFAIK.

*shrug* I'm not sure users want to constantly get more and more packages added 
to their install, vs just the existing packages updated.  Typically 
RHL/Fedora releases wouldn't change comps for the duration of the release, 
but with Extras and new packages being added all the time, comps can get 
updated.  Blindly adding new packages to a user's install isn't the way, 
perhaps if the user launches pirut it can notice that new packages have been 
added to the pool and do a interesting popup or a window that says "new 
packages added to the pool:
foo in group Bar
baz in group Zing

and let the USER decide if they want to add those packages or not.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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