On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Pierre-Malo Deniélou <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 27/09/12 10:04,Colin Guthrie nous adresse ces quelques mots : >> Just ran into my first practical problem and would like your feedback. > > I'm guessing your email is just the first of a long list :-). > The new RPM group will indeed cause some head scratching for many packages. > >> PulseAudio packages used to just be in "Sound" group, but now I have to >> sub-categorise them as Sound/*. This is fine and I put everything in the >> Sound/Mixer category for now as this is one of the tasks PA does, mix >> your audio, but I get the feeling this group was more designed to >> represent graphical mixer UIs rather than infrastructure level stuff. > > RPM groups are for users, not necessarily technical users (technical > users already know which packages interest them). > So the main advice to find the category of a given package is: > > Where would it make sense for a user browsing through a list to find it? > > For PulseAudio, Sound/Mixer is fine.
I don't agree If someone wants to install a mixer, pulesaudio in the list will probably confuse him >> Or perhaps PA should just go in System/Base? > > No. It only drowns it in the crowd of completely unrelated packages. Do you expect someone to want to manually install pulseaudio after removing it, and search it in mixers?
