Dne 26.9.2018 v 18:35 Adam Williamson napsal(a): > On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 08:17 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> Dne 24.9.2018 v 19:32 Adam Williamson napsal(a): >>> On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 12:21 +0200, Vít Ondruch wrote: >>>> Just FTR, some while ago, I proposed to drop comps entirely: >>>> >>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/ISCIB67JKW7WBC74KA4DSCAP6AZOUY5G/ >>> That...doesn't seem like a very serious proposal at all, given that you >>> didn't suggest *in any way* how we would replace the critical functions >>> it's currently performing. Are you suggesting metapackages? >> Well I proposed "drop comps entirely (or at least trim them down >> significantly)". At least the second part is in line with your request I >> believe. >> >> And I am not speaking necessarily about "metapackages". But we should >> really start using Recommends more and especially Suggest is unused at >> all. E.g. in comps, there is "Ruby on Rails" group installing bunch of >> packages. There is no reason to not have these dependencies specified in >> rubygem-rails (which already exists and has its purpose no matter if >> there are comps or not) via Suggests for example. The only issue AFAIK >> is there is no real support for Suggests in DNF :/ > How would this work in the identified use case of 'package managers > displaying groups of packages for browsing'? Would the package managers > have to somehow generate these views on the fly from Suggests? Frankly, package manager have not adjusted yet. They don't do anything about Recommends which are commonly used nowadays. Anyway, g-s can show plugins (you can check gVim for example), so this is very similar scenario IMO. Vít _______________________________________________ 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
