Le Lun 3 novembre 2008 11:46, Denis Leroy a écrit :
Comps evolved over time into something that doesn't make a whole
bunch
of sense to me. Is the main use of comps still for installation groups
within yum and anaconda ? A lot of packages are not installation
"targets" but simply libraries that should only be installed by being
pulled in from dependency resolution. Now if we're trying to
"categorize" all packages nonetheless, it'd be better to have a
tag-based system from packagedb, where packages can be "tagged"
a-la-gmail, and also belong into multiple tag groups as some things
really belong into multiple categories...
This tag-based system still needs to have a human-editable file
deployment format since we do want third-party and private
repositories to be categorised and 'just install packagedb' won't ever
fly.
Right now this deployment format is comps.
I agree it is less than ideal, but so far no clear entity has stepped
up to make it evolve (and any evolution would need
anaconda/yum/packagedb/packagekit/spin-tools buy-in).
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Nicolas Mailhot