A new, additional sort order of packages in smart?

[Basil Chupin]

Pascal Bleser wrote:
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> Basil Chupin wrote:
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>>>> Is it possible to add an additional sort order for packages in the
>>>> smart package manager?
>>>>
>>>> The one I am thinking of is the one which exists in the SUSE's YOU
>>>> software manager which has a group called SELECTION which groups
>>>> packages according to such headings as-
>>>>
>>>> Graphical Base System
>>>> KDE Desktop Environment
>>>> All of KDE
>>>> GNOME System
>>>> Games
>>>> Multimedia
>>>> Kernel Development
>>>> Network and Server
>>>>
>>>> and so on.
>>>>
>>>> These groupings not only greatly help in locating packages whose exact
>>>> names are not known but their general purpose is known as well as
>>>> installing all packages which are required for a specific purpose (eg,
>>>> multimedia).
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> What you are asking for is yast2 repository specific.
> Those "selections" are kept in .sel files in yast2 repositories and are
> not available with rpm-md or apt-rpm (or whatever else) package repository.
> 
> Hence, I really don't think it makes any sense, especially as you have a
> mix of different repository types in your channel list.
> Furthermore, that selection thing is being deprecated in favor of
> another, similar but more powerful approach in SUSE 10.2 ("patterns").
> See threads on the opensuse-factory at opensuse.org mailing-list.
> 
> cheers

Thanks for this, Pascal. It was just a thought re the additional sorting 
order.

But a new "more powerful approach" in SUSE 10.2 is being put in place, eh?

Thanks for the warning. Looks like I/we will be using smart for a 
looooong time to come.

Cheers.

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