Richard Hughes <hughsient <at> gmail.com> writes:
No. PK groups are made up _from_ the comps groups. There are just an
order of magnitude less options, and it's a flat list rather than a
tree. Comps supports optional, mandatory, suggested and the sort of
power user stuff that I just don't want to support in PackageKit.
So you want PackageKit to be useless for power users? Then what should power
users use?
For me to "clean up the groups" would be to rip out all
optional groups,
rip out most of the obscure categories and add lots of packages with
lots of extra deps. I'm sure that's not what you want me to do with
comps at all.
The optional groups all exist for a reason, they shouldn't be removed, but they
also shouldn't be hidden (which for an end user is essentially the same as
removing).
If you want to actually help with this stuff, can I suggest you join
the
PackageKit mailing list and discuss there? Fedora isn't the only
consumer of PackageKit, and I'm keen on working upstream on ideas and
policies with other distros rather than just defending decisions made
upstream that affect fedora.
Then (i.e. if there's disagreement between distributions on how to handle this)
there needs to be a way for a distribution to configure this, and the
configuration in Fedora should reflect Fedora's wishes, not those of other
distributions.
Kevin Kofler