Hi all, I'm writing about the current rpm group policy: http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy
In this list, there are some groups that contain only a handful of packages while some others are in the hundreds. It sometimes makes it very hard to use rpmdrake (or other tools) to browse the packages. It is not a bug per se, but rather an interface issue, particularly with inexperienced users. My interest lies in particular in the Development/Other group. It is currently a mess, mixing up programming tools with libraries and compilers for the non-major programming languages. Among them, there are now 300 packages for OCaml-related packages. I propose we create a Development/OCaml group for them. I also noticed that despite our policy not having a Development/Tools rpm group, some packages started using it (I guess because Fedora and Suse have a Development/Tools group). I think this is a good idea and we could move there various tools currently in Development/Other like cvs, subversion (and all vcs), valgrind, make, autoconf, etc. If you agree, I will amend our http://wiki.mageia.org/en/RPM_groups_policy with these two changes and get in touch with the appropriate packagers/maintainers to do the group change (which is a trivial spec change). Thanks, -- Malo
