On 17/10/2019 10.31, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 17.10.19 um 02:15 schrieb Simon Lees:
This wasn't the way you worded it in your original email. If this is what your thinking it seems you are trying to run a "distro-wide endeavor" without the buy in of most of the distro. It seems while some other people think "tags" might be useful, No one else agrees that the current system is useful, the fact that the info has been removed from openSUSE's tools, maybe the only place the current groups could be really useful is to convert to a new "tag" system if there comes to a consensus on that.
I agreed a few times with Jan that I find the groups helpful. That was up to 15.0 or 15.1 my primary source to browse available software based on categories. And yes, it was not always accurate but better than anything else we had and now have. At least within YaST there is no useful way for me to search for software where I don't know the name for. Tags might be a better thing but they do not exist.
So what are people using to find certain packages available in the repos if you you look for a category?
I do use the "view by package group" in YaST to search for useful applications, when not knowing a name for what I search, or when searching for new applications that I don't even know they exist.
I fired up YaST to verify, and to my utter surprise the feature has been removed in 15.1! There is no longer "view by rpm groups!
This is so unbelievable that I fired up a virtual machine with 15.0 to verify: it is true.
Yes. The YaST Team was requested to remove it via Fate and we did it in October 2018. See: https://github.com/libyui/libyui-qt-pkg/pull/58 https://github.com/libyui/libyui-ncurses-pkg/pull/27 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