[repo-coord] Opening the Group-tag debate

[Jeff Pitman]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 22:34, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Now, there are a few options, more involved parties
> and possibly even more strong opinions.

What about digging in deep and implementing Trove in RPM:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-December/msg00412.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00420.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg00422.html

Seth does bring up a point about it, but I think Trove is already a well 
established standard:  freshmeat and sf.net.  Pushing what's necessary 
into RPM can only be seen as a good thing, IMHO.  And, that may mean 
other infra changes, but I think we'll have better scalability in 
categorization and searchability with Trove.

Better yet, a more complex system than comps.xml could be derived from 
Trove information to install groups of packages without a packager 
needing to manually create pseudo groups in comps.xml.

take care,
-- 
-jeff