On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 9:37 AM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 05:17:29AM +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
IMHO, we need a proper solution for the general comps issue rather than that half-baked compromise that does not really improve the situation. KDE Plasma
I agree -- comps has a lot of problems which limit our flexibility, and doesn't really even expose useful collections to users. I'd love to see a modern replacement.
I think it would be interesting to replace it with Colin's OS Container ideas. Want KDE? Install the KDE OS container layer. Creation of that is in a container file.
That's a departure from traditional installations, but it's still interesting. The rub here is that comps isn't well loved, but it's not very complicated either. It's a list of packages associated with a thing, and our tools know how to interpret it. A modern replacement for "a list of things" by itself isn't going to be very ground breaking. Changing how we think about and deploy the OS gives us more interesting options.
josh