rpm.groups - Libraries/Ruby

[Bartosz Taudul]

2010/6/24 Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com>:
>> Why do we care about RPM groups?
> What else would we discuss if RPMTAG_GROUP did not exist?
I was referring to the general shit state of the group hierarchy in
PLD. Basically 90% of the stuff is in Applications or
X11/Applications, which makes the groups completly useless. There was
some movement to make them more useful, but that was in 2004 and
hadn't been talked about since then.

New group hierarchy proposition can be found at
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/PLD-doc/nowe-grupy?rev=HEAD.
Jeff, it would be interesting to hear what do you think about
replacement of groups with tags, as that might make more sense.
Prototype graphical package manager which sorts packages by groups can
be downloaded from http://team.pld-linux.org/~wolf/pacman/, but it's
not all that useful.
Prototype tool for managing package groups can be downloaded from
http://team.pld-linux.org/~wolf/rgmt.7z, but it works only with the
old SPECS/SOURCES structure and will break on some spec files. But,
since it displays the groups from all the spec files, it can show how
much chaos and typos is there, since nobody really cares.

tl;dr: RPM groups in PLD suck.

wolf