On Fri, Oct 04, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
There are heretic movements being made right now to actively kill the Group line, rendering software like rpm-catalog useless to the end-user. Not to mention it nullifies the 3000 or whatever SRs made within the last 2 years, which is a great way to say "thank you, for nothing".
We had this discussion already and we disagreed, but again: the current list of groups is pretty useless and many packages have wrong group tags, even if you claim otherwise. Why? Because for many important areas we have no matching group at all. Or can you tell me, where you would look for all the container or kubernetes related tools? Not even the wiki page is correct. It claims you can introduce new groups by just using them. But of course, we don't allow that, there is somewhere a list which creates an error and the reviewer will reject the package. So, if you want to have RPM Group Tags, make at first sure, that the "infrastructure" is correct, documented and working including processes to adjust the list, that we have useful current groups (not what was usefull 10-15 years ago) and that people really choose a good group. The current mess is not needed. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Felix Imendoerffer (HRB 247165, AG München) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org