On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 23:49 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > 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.... Probably here :) > 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. Unfortunately, these conditionals make things _extremely_ non-deterministic as to how they're going to work. In the past, without the per-group details, it was just kind of annoying. Now, it would be absolutely mind boggling. Just think about how having one group selected drastically changes what gets selected otherwise -- how do you handle that if someone edits Development, then selects KDE? Do you turn on KDE Development or not? Jeremy
