Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2011, 14:27 +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:02:42PM -0700, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> Fedora Medical is still not available in a spin form, however, you
> can find the packages:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673841
Just for the sake of interest as a Debian user (I never touched any
other Linux distribution since my bloody beginners days with slackware):
What does the page you quoted really mean? There are some Depends
listed but some of them are striked out. It's a bit unclear to me what
I finally get.
The bug does not refer to a package but is a tracker bug used to track
all the reviews of medial packages in Fedora. They appear as
dependencies of this bug (not of a package!) in the list. Once a review
was finished and the package is available in Fedora, the one more bug is
striked out.
Does the metapackage technique exist in Fedora?
Yes, but it's strongly encouraged. We only have a few metapackages and
they are only used for packages that are built from one source, e.g.
git-all that installs app packages built from the git source rpm.
Instead we use package groups, this is pretty similar to the concepts of
tasks in Debian. Groups can contain mandatory, default and optional
packages, but currently we have don't have a medical group yet.
HTH,
Christoph