A wizard sounds like a good idea.... are there any howtos on Wizards for M??
greetings, sascha 2010/12/18 Michael scherer <m...@zarb.org> > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:03:36AM +0100, SaschaS wrote: > > So I see basically that we need a guidline on how mageia deals with > Spinoffs > > first. > > > > If all task are in the repos, I can understand those who say that there > are > > to many task. > > The problem is not that there is too much more than the consequence of the > high number of task-*. > > rpmdrake, who is the main consumer of task-* rpm > convention, show all of them as 1 single list. So basically, with lots of > tasks- > rpm, you just have a big unsorted list of category. Obviously not good for > endusers. > > While it would be useful to group task into sound category, for the moment, > we cannot. One way would be to encode this information in the name ( ie, > decide > that task-sound-foo and task-sound-bar are part of the sound category ). > > I am not sure that using the name for this is a good idea. It is quite > poor, > in term of metadata, and that's still a tree structure, while may a tag > based > one may be better ( like Debian do, for example ). > > More ever, it doesn't make much sense to have task-lamp-* task-nagios and > task-kde4 > at the same level, they are not destined at the same public. > > Not to mention that installing rpm is ust half of the solution, > configuration is > the other one. While we can to some extend push configuration in the rpm, > there > is some that we cannot do reliably ( like adding a user to a group ). > > So maybe a wizard is a better solution than using a rpm that does magically > everything. > > -- > Michael Scherer >