On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:00:24AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Recently, you've added the following groups to comps: > > it-security-code-analysis > it-security-forensics > it-security-intrusion-detection > it-security-reconnaissance > it-security-wireless > it-security-password-recovery > > You've also added a new toplevel category. This means this new nebulous > 'IT Securty' item is pushed at the toplevel, much as 'Desktops' or > 'Language Support'. That seems misplaced to me. How can I bundle the groups, if not with a category? Or can there be subcategories? > While I know that we do allow some discretion in adding to comps, none > of this was discussed beforehand on this list (that I saw), or in FESCo. > These sorts of large scale changes are the sorts of things that should > be discussed. I asked on this list and got a reply from Jesse Keating: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg02292.html > What is the overall goal of these changes? The goal is to make it easier to find software related to specific IT security related tasks. > Why isn't this just done via a menus package in the security spin? > Wouldn't that be more useful? No, because this does not help me with my search from yum. Btw. this is true for other package groups, too. E.g. we have a KDE spin and a KDE group in comps. > Many of these packages are *already* in other groups; having them > now be explicitly listed in multiple groups doesn't really make sense > to me, especially when we already have 'Administration Tools' and > 'System Tools' groups. I believe the restriction that packages may only belong to one group is gone. I don't see why it is not helpful to be easily able to install these related packages. Regards Till
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