[Fedora-packaging] meta-package guideline needed ?

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

meta packages will be good.

task-c-devel
task-c++-devel
task-kde-minimal
task-kde
task-gnome
task-gnome-minimal

etc.....



On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
>
> Le Lun 12 janvier 2009 15:02, Jonathan Underwood a écrit :
>
>> Also, using comps groups for the metapackage use case I outlined would
>> lead to many more compsgroups, themselves much smaller than the
>> presently existing comps groups.
>
> If you look at the comps groups of past releases, you'll see that
> creating groups with half a dozen packages inside has been done
> before, and was a common case when comps was introduced. The
> distribution has massively grown without our comps layout following,
> probably because no one was perceived to be in chargo of comps those
> past years.
>
>> Perhaps we need another concept - collections and groups, where
>> collections is roughly what we currently call comps groups (large
>> package sets with a big overall functionality payload like a desktop
>> environment etc) and comps groups which are primarily for pulling in a
>> series of subpackages.
>
> There was supposed to be a session on comps future at FUDCON, I hope
> its results will be posted on the list soon.
>
> Regards,
>
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