On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 4:34 AM, Kevin Kofler <[email protected]> wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: >> RPM itself is now sufficiently advanced that it can take on all the >> roles of composition group metadata. They would essentially be transformed >> into metapackages. This has already happened on the SUSE side, where >> their patterns are now just metapackages with Provides that the >> package manager knows to work from. > > Using metapackages or even the good old RPM Group tag could work, if > 1. we actually ship this information in our packages, and > 2. tools like Dnfdragora actually know how to use them. (Dnfdragora has > support for RPM Group tags, but I don't think it supports the SUSE > approach at this time, does it?) >
It's in development, as Mageia also uses the same approach (the task-* packages function the same way that pattern-* packages on SUSE do). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
