Re: [Fedora-packaging] RFC: Creating meta group packages via comps

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:13 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:

Hi,

It should be really easy to make a script that builds metagroup packages from comps, no?

This will allow someone to install a group such as kde/gnome as an rpm package and when packages are removed/added/changed in the comps groups, the meta group package also changes, and the user gets the appropriate changes.

I don't think this is possible now with the groupinstall feature in yum which IMO is a bad feature since it should be done with meta group packages as I describe.

So you want to make packages based on what is in comps?

Whats the point of that if we can just read the comps information itself? -sv