Re: New Comps Groups

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Christopher Stone (chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx) said: 
> If you ask what good it provides, then I have to ask what harm would
> it cause?

That's not how good engineering is done, generally - it's based
on 'Why?', not 'Why not?' Any bit of new code:

1) can add bugs
2) adds a maintenance load
3) adds complexity

The idea is to figure out the scenarios and personas you're trying
to design for, and then figure out how to meet those needs.

How does a checkbox list of 589 packages (roughly the number of
perl-* packages) make someone's life easier? Is this better done
via searching for 'perl' in the package search interface, for example?

Playing devil's advocate, if you go this way, wouldn't the better way be
to automatically tag packages that install files in
/usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages as 'python modules', and generate the
comps file from a database?

Bill

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