On 10/18/19 6:40 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2019-10-18 07:48, Simon Lees wrote:
Hi Jan
I was discussing this with a few people and we have come up with what we feel would be a better proposal in the long term, that is to populate the group tag from the desktop file category shipped with the package.
I find that 1799 (noarch|x86_64).rpm files carry a /usr/share/applications/*.desktop file; the ARCHIVES.gz lists 39095 such rpms overall, which puts the coverage of your suggestion to 4%, which is about the same as Richard's proposal of using AppData XML files instead.
Taking a very conservative view here maybe this also means that if only 4% of packages ship such data and we know all desktop apps do, if you left a very conservative 4% for cli apps or select other things that people may search for via groups it means that currently 92% of packages ship group information that is basically useless to users such as shared libs etc. Texlive probably skews that alot but that probably doesn't need a group really because searching "texlive" will give you all the results you need. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B