> In answer to > http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-August/007644.html > > To Ronald : > > It is nice you worked on this, especially considering it was a feature > request posted by Aaron himself : > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7132 > > However, I warmly recommend you to have a look at this : > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Development > > Especially the submitting patches page. And all the git guides. > > 1) you should really use git for doing pacman development > 2) it it is a good idea to split patches, especially huge ones like > this 3) all pacman development happens on pacman-dev, not > arch-dev-public 4) all big patches go through the ML for review and > discussion. Even Dan sometimes sends his own patches (the less > trivial ones) there > > > To everyone : > > About the feature itself, here is the last thread where it was > discussed : > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-June/008555.html I was > always divided about it. I understand the point of view "groups are > installable, categories are not" However, after having a look at this > patch, it seems like it justifies Nagy's opinion even more : > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-June/008565.html > This category implementation basically looks like a duplication of the > whole group implementation.
In alpm a group is simply a set of packages (with a given "set name", like xorg). Nothing more. (The front-end does the group specific operations, the back-end just stores our "sets".) Tag or category is just an other _type_ of sets (type A: group, type B: category...). The question is, whether we need this? Imho not. (If someone wants to implement categories, he can use "category:multimedia" group (== set) names and hack some "interpreter" to front-end. But I think we don't need this distinction at all, see my linked opinion: IMHO the meaning of "group" and "category" are similar). Bye _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
