On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > Igor Gnatenko wrote: >> Can we finally kill this comps stuff please? > > Please no! AppStream is no suitable replacement, due to limitations both of > the spec and of its implementation in Fedora. E.g., where are the -devel > packages in Fedora AppStream metadata? They are in comps. There are more > such limitations. In addition, AppStream does or will also include non-RPM > artefacts, which is not necessarily what the user wants. > > I really like dnfdragora, which allows browsing comps groups and RPMs, > without any of this newfangled AppStream, Flatpak, etc. stuff. >
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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
