On 2018-08-28, Mattia Verga <mattia.verga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2018-08-26, Mattia Verga <mattia.verga(a)yandex.com> wrote: >> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_Group_Tag> :( >> >> -- Petr > The Group tag would not fix exactly what I mean. I wouldn't want to > create groups of packages, but apply descriptive tags of the abilities > of the package. > I was proposing repurposing the Group tag. Nobody uses it for installing package groups nowadays. Actually I don't think it ever was used like that. It was always used more like a category. > For example, in some of the packages I maintain: > ccdciel: astronomy, astrophotography, imaging, telescope For example in ccdciel package: Group: astronomy, astrophotography, imaging, telescope However I don't know if Group is a scalar or a vector. Vector tag would be more suitable, so that a package manager got the list already parsed as: Group: astronomy Group: astrophotography Group: imaging Group: telescope > ... so that a user can search for those tags in a package manager, > instead of searching Google to find what software can do what he's > searching for and then search for that package in the package manager > to find if Fedora ships it. > This works now: $ dnf -q repoquery --qf '%{GROUP} %{NAME}' | grep Games If yum repodata provided a reverse index (a mapping from a group to package names), then "dnf -q repoqeury --what-group Games" would also work. -- Petr _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
