On Saturday, June 27 2009, Kevin Kofler said:
* fixing comps so task-oriented groups like
"Sound&Video" aren't biased
towards GNOME apps (this most likely requires extending the comps format or
having separate comps-kde and comps-gnome - I think extending the format to
handle conditionals based on the desktop selected via radiobutton would be
the more maintainable solution in the long run): where I'd like to get to
is that if I select Sound&Video after having selected GNOME as the desktop,
I get Totem and Rhythmbox by default and kdemultimedia, Amarok and Kaffeine
as optional checkboxes, but if I select Sound&Video after having selected
KDE as the desktop, I get kdemultimedia, Amarok and Kaffeine by default and
Totem and Rhythmbox as optional checkboxes,
fwiw, concrete discussions on how to actually improve comps so that it
scales to the order of magnitude more packages + many many many more use
cases we have are welcome. We had a long discussion about it at the
FUDCon in January, but no one was really happy with the idea we came up
with (as it introduced new problems and didn't solve all the existing
ones) and so we continue to live with where we are.
Jeremy