Comment # 18 on bug 1175457 from Petr Mikul�k

> Your assesment on provided groups is false.
> So your quick check reports it as 'there are groups' yet they are mostly useless.


Useless and false? What about actually checking the numbers:

All packages:
zgrep 'Group[ ]*:[ ]*' /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz | wc -l
=> 38571

Group unspecified packages:
zgrep 'Group[ ]*:[ ]*' /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz | grep Unspecified | wc -l
=> 2161

Unspecified non some libs:
zgrep 'Group[ ]*:[ ]*' /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz | grep Unspecified | egrep -iv
'(python|devel|myspell|lib)' | wc -l
=> 742


Thus, there are 742 out of 38571. Looking manually to their list, I have found
only these "user-friendly" packages without a group:
fontforge, asciidoc, pandoc, rstudio
You will probably find more. How many?

Those other 738 looks like libraries, desktop support files etc. And this
discussion has stated in the beginning that the Group classification is a great
help for users and user-used software.


Hm, I wonder why a user needs to persuade Yast/OpenSUSE maintainers how good
the current system is. My wish is to keep it running until anything better is
available.


> Doing anything outside YaST doesn't make sense I guess.

I wish I don't need to be root for having a GUI to browse OpenSUSE packages.
Running 
    /usr/sbin/yast2 sw_single
without root privileges terminates with an error message.