On 10/17/19 6:26 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
MAY OF 2018.
[1.0] TC: too strict requirements on group JE: let's give ourselves some time to come up with better options
[1.0] TC: only yast and rpm display the group value, let's remove it JE: there are other programs that can display or use it in some fashion
[1.0] TC: it does not really make sense to install packages based groups JE: the Group field's purpose is not for installation, but browsing
[1.3] WR: annoyed by wrong or inconsistent groups. JE: I'm on it, fixing it. (To date, around 350 edits could be found from my side alone to that end. In other cases, no edit was needed, or the package has not yet crossed my field of sight.)
[1.4] WR: trying to figure out the single-category group is hard. (JE: agreement; go for tags)
[1.5] MC: recurring packager questions like "What is the Group field for?", "which to choose?" (JE: agreement; go for tags, that seems to work out well for freshcode.club and stackexchange.com)
[1.6] MC: (basically Fedora failed to get a grip on Groups, so the world should remove it) (JE: openSUSE has a grip, so "keep" and/or do tags)
CONCLUSION OF MAY 2018.
Supporters of having some value for "Group":
Jan Engelhardt [1.3] "The grouping made yast something of a "Things to Explore" guide to the packages it had." Scott Bahling @SUSE [1.9] "I'm using the rpm Group tag as a way to index software in Package Hub" Wolfgang Rosenauer @SUSE [1.4] "I use the group index to find software I might be interested in." Adam Majer @SUSE
It should be pointed out that before the removal became possible both yast and packagehub have been migrated to use alternate mechanisms so i'm not sure how much weight these arguments have. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org