On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 02:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > New stuff showing up in the repo is completely unrelated to the groups. > > ... which is exactly why it shouldn't get installed just because it got > added to some group. :-) The above is what yum groupupdate groupname does right now. > Well, I think that with the suggested changes, there will be a lots of > complaints about unwanted packages getting installed. > > But what do I care? I can just remove all the metapackages. It's average > users who are going to get hurt (i.e. exactly the people you're trying to > help). :-( How about we try it and place a little bet on it :) > > Which is why we can do groups of groups and more precisely break them > > down into smaller sections. so you install what you need, not the whole > > world. > > That sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure it's going to scale. If we end up > with one group per package, we're failing. If we end up with that. I doubt we will. > > > I suspect most users never know what comps is and they do all their > > discovery by doing: > > yum search someword > > or > > yum list somepkgnametheyknow > > You think most people don't use the GUIs? I'm not claiming you're wrong > because I don't have any stats, but are you sure? I think browsing even in the GUIs is a disaster area. It's like this - when was the last time you used yahoo to 'browse the internet'? When was the last time you used google? Browsing 10000 pkgs is like browsing the internet - it's a completely mess if you try it. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
