On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Colin Walters (walters(a)verbum.org) said:
> > Those packages aren't part of the desktop group; they're part of the
> > base group.
>
> We should move all of the "traditional Unix" bits out that aren't
actually
> hard required (talk, rsh, rsync, man-pages) into a separate group, or
> alternatively switch desktop to somehow depend on @base[required].
Well, we could have a comps file that defines groups like...
But that's a fairly large shift in design.
There is a question how far to go, however, I think one could not argue that
the base group's description "This group includes a minimal set of
packages." is not really accurate.
We could alternatively say that desktop doesn't include @base, and just rely
on explicit dependencies. But that would need case by case evaluation;
prelink and pm-utils are obvious things we want.