Deepak Bhole wrote:
* Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-03-28 12:55]:
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:50 -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote:
We had agreed on an "exit clause" of dropping this when the RPM/yum
Capabilities (?) feature became available to replace the deprecated
Groups, so we could mark packages with various attributes like
"Java",
"JPP" etc, and select them at will in all sorts of operations.
This could just as easily go in the "Group:" tag, and not complicate the
n-v-r.
No easy to sort with that though. With the release having jpp in there,
one can just do rpm -qa | grep jpp
As for the reason why sort is needed... well, Java is sort of a special
case in that it is the only set that has all packages available from a
different vendor. So if someone wants to replace the Fedora Java stack
with the JPackage Java stack or vice versa, they need to be able to
easily find out the set..
Deepak
The same happens when we are developing a new stack and on several other
scenarios that were described and examined long ago. The conclusion was
that the new RPM+Yum things was the solution for everything, and that by
that time we would be able to remove that clause.
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