On 10/28/19 3:31 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 12:20 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2019, 10:52:48 CET schrieb Simon Lees:
If Yast is never going to support groups again then personally
I'm missing yet another reason for using yast sw_single.
Let's spin it the other way around:
Given, we have established an improved grouping classification for the available packages, more people *will* find a grouping view in yast useful.
I think you should consider a hard fact of life - it doesn't matter what a small number of vocal users and/or contributors decide in their own ecochamber, if the actual developers of a tool do not agree, they are under no obligation to impliment any tooling to support any such classification.
The YaST team made a concious decision to remove code they knew they no longer wished to support that utilised metadata which a public discussion had (at the time at least) clearly shown to be unnecessary to the Project I just wanted to point out that it was not exactly a YaST Team initiative and that maintainability of the code had nothing to do with it. We removed it because it was reported to us that it was causing more confusion than good.
To be precise and as already pointed in another of the dozen of threads discussing this topic, the YaST Team was requested to remove the functionality via Fate. To be honest, I don't quite remember every detail of the discussion. But the description of the Fate mentioned this: "The preliminary discussion was done on openSUSE Factory list '[opensuse-factory] Killing Group tag in .spec files'." So we finally removed the functionality as requested. We did it via these two pull requests: https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt-pkg/pull/58 https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses-pkg/pull/27 So we were never exactly excited about removing the functionality, we did it by request and to reduce confusion based on the bad state of the information we were displaying (which is something out of our control). Cheers -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org