Hi folks, First, a big thank you to all of you who took some time to take a look at the comps files and add packages and drop me kind messages. I know things are not completely clear to many people wrt the purpose and usefulness of the comps files. It's also not too clear exactly what packages should appear in there. Which also goes to say that there is no way to write an automated tool that would determine which packages should appear in there and either add them automatically or send nagmails to their owners. For all these reasons, it was decided during the last FESCo meeting to create a new comps SIG, which purpose will be to: - clearly document why and what packages should go in comps - document and implement a way for maintainers to request new groups - periodically review the contents of the comps file to make sure all mentioned packages exist and are properly classified - periodically review all packages available in Extras and either ask their owners to add them in comps or simply add them in some cases If you would like to help with any of these tasks, please head to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Comps sign yourself up and pitch in. <sales pitch> comps is probably the first showcase a Fedora user will see: anaconda (the Fedora installer) uses comps to present available packages to the user. Other package management GUI also make use of comps to let users select package from software groups. The "group" tag in spec files is on its way to become optional, and might slowly fade into oblivion. If you went to the trouble of packaging some software that you think users will want to install on their machine, why not make it easy for them to just select it from a group list ? All you need to do is add it to the comps file in the appropriate group... </sales pitch> Cheers, Christian -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
