On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 12:45 +0200, Tomas Chvatal wrote:
Hi all,
We have pretty strict requirements how the group tags are shown. [0]
But there are only 2 ways to use it, 1) yast view based on groups 2) using rpm -q to get information for the individual package. For all other purposes from zypp/packagekit this stuff is ignored.
In general it does not really make sense to install packages based on groups. As Fedora already deprecated this tag it would make sense for us to drop it too [1][2].
Proposed change would be to kill the Yast UI and then have spec-cleaner to drop the part where needed. It won't break on older releases as it would simply have Undefined as a group.
Cheers
Tom
Just curious: did you run this through the SLE fate process already? There the group is even strictly enforced. Dropping this requirement on the openSUSE side will cause our downstream to suffer from it, unless they give up on the requirement too. Cheers Dominique