  Re: rpm groups and fedora: a modest proposal  Le mer,
26/05/2004 Ã 02:33 -0400, seth vidal a Ãcrit : > > Comps is
totally unsuitable since it limits you to whatever packages > >
where known to the distribution at the time of its release. (ie
bye bye > > third-party packages). > Anyone can generate a comps
file, trivially. The groups support in yum, > for example, can
merge multiple comps-format files into one set of > groups. > >
Like for spec file i18n we need a solution that permits
standalone > > self-contained packages. Anything else will sort-
of work with RedHat and > > be rejected by anyone else. >
standalone packages are slowly becoming obsolete. > There is no
point in discussing groups for standalone packages b/c a >
standalone is not a member of any group by its very nature - it
is > standalone.  Of course not - take very small repositories
(like the evo 1.5 one, arjanv kernel, rpms released by the
developpers of a given app, etc)  They do exist. They are very
useful. But they shouldn't be required