James Antill wrote:
And, yeh, those kinds of tools for check-update/update/etc. are
something I'm interested in (see myum-list-updates for a very prototype
example solution). But again, I think that's a very different problem
than what groups are for atm.
Categorizing things into groups barely makes sense when about 90% of the
packages are general-purpose tools.
What are groups for anyway? Things that have to be installed together
should be pulled by dependencies. Things that one person thinks might
belong in one group might not make any sense there to someone else.
Where do you put things like the bazillion perl modules? Are they
grouped by their purpose where one is obvious? Or do you need to know
you are using perl to get one? If you start tagging things for every
purpose it could possibly have, you are going to make browsing
categories worse than just wading through the whole package list.
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