Descriptive package groups

tradiaz · 2007-09-09 12:27:49

Hi,
im writing a pacman libalpm (pacman) backend for packagekit (packagekit.org).
Packagekit puts all packages into groups like "Accesoires", "System", "Graphics" etc.
which is campatible with the freedesktop.org standard.
Specifying those groups in the package files would make it easy and convenient for GUI package managers
to organize those packages.
Introducing this feature would be easy as there is already a groups filed in the packages and
as the need to rebuild certain packages arises the maintainers could add the appropriate group name.
What do you think about it?

byte · 2007-09-09 13:59:12

The group field in PKGBUILDs is different from what you want. I think there was somewhere talk about implementing 'categories'... no idea if it was forum, wiki or mailing lists.

shining · 2007-09-09 19:31:32

About category, here is a feature request :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7132
and a discussion on pacman-dev ML :
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-d … 08555.html

About packagekit, did you read this :
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36575

Edit : uh, yes you did, I wasn't up to date with the messages from that thread, sorry

Last edited by shining (2007-09-09 19:33:58)

tradiaz · 2007-09-10 08:24:05

Cool, looks like the devs like the category idea.

shining · 2007-09-10 11:11:50

tradiaz wrote:

Cool, looks like the devs like the category idea.

Indeed, both phrakture and toofishes liked this idea, so if someone wrote a good patch for it, it would most likely be merged

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#1 2007-09-09 12:27:49

Descriptive package groups

#2 2007-09-09 13:59:12

Re: Descriptive package groups

#3 2007-09-09 19:31:32

Re: Descriptive package groups

#4 2007-09-10 08:24:05

Re: Descriptive package groups

#5 2007-09-10 11:11:50

Re: Descriptive package groups

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