Okay, I was sure I had a conversation with Jeremy (or someone) about this a while ago, but I can't remember how it came out, or find record of it anyway.... The old non-XML comps file had the ability to list packages as conditional on others -- you could have a Games group, and tag certain packages within that to only get installed if (for example) X was selected. The new format, while superior in many ways, doesn't seem to have this. And it causes an annoying problem, very apparent in the select-package-groups screen. There shouldn't need to be separate groups for Development, X Development, GNOME Development, and KDE Development. There should just be Development, and then if you've picked that, it'd automatically install the devel stuff for any desktop environments you've choosen. A similar thing applies to the config tools (although, really, those could just be moved from their own special group and put with the things they configure, couldn't they?). Would it be possible to have something like this for Fedora Core 3? This is in some ways a tangent to the thread Havoc Pennington started this afternoon on the fedora-list -- having a more flexible and user-friendly package group syntax would help with making more powerful install class options. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
