future of smart

[Anders F Björklund]

Grant McWilliams wrote:

> We had a discussion ages ago about groupinstall and where yum gets  
> it's group info from but I can tell you that I manage a repo for a  
> company and I don't do anything special when I create rpms and I  
> can install all files from my group using yum with one line. I  
> think the conversation died before we really decided what to do  
> about groupinstall. I really don't think having smart keep track of  
> which package belongs to which group would be that big of a deal,  
> someone would just have to dig into it.


I have been using "virtual packages" instead, but then again I don't  
use Yum...
But I think groups work something like in Anaconda, which I do use  
occasionally.

I agree it would be a nice feature, if all groups/virtual  
dependencies could
be known/listed by Smart... Maybe it could parse the comps.xml into  
"regular"
packages and list them with all the rest ? I did something like this  
for the
virtual packages that Fink provides (externally) for the system  
capabilities.

ZYpp is doing some work on unifying (groups/patterns and updates/ 
patches), so
there _might_ be a common metadata format for RPM repositories in the  
future.

--anders