On 10/18/19 6:54 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2019-10-18 10:02, Simon Lees wrote:
Is it not allowed to change one's mind? As part of that thread, there came a time when I realized, hey, groups not so bad after all if you actually spend time on the matter. https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-05/msg00508.html "I would totally want to retain RPM groups [for games]". The natural question then is, why stop at games.
" Maybe this insight helps in finding where to go :)" isn't really a strong indication if others were happy with the removal I can clearly see who they thought they had a general consensus and thefore started the removal work,
Fair enough.
it was another year before you gave a strong indication that you wanted to keep them and by that time much of the work behind the scenes was done.
What was done behind the scenes merely involved touching yast and zypper AFAICS (the other part was then in front of the curtain).
Once the "consensus" was found the next step seems to have been that it then went through a internal SUSE change process to be accepted into SLE which is the fate that has been mentioned in some cases. Because of that and rpmlint now being fixed hence why people think it is ok to drop it. rpmlint has been undergoing major changes so I guess that's why it took so long for that part to fall into place otherwise i'm sure they would have started being removed sooner.
Now that all those pieces have fallen into place based off the consensus over a year ago SUES engineers can now remove the Group tag from packages in SLE and other products and most Managers are under the impression that the tags are not needed and can freely be removed.