[Yum-devel] [PATCH RFC] Add new metadata type to comps

James Antill james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 19 20:31:21 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 16:05 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> As part of the anaconda UI redesign, we wanted to drive software selection
> based on a bit of higher level metadata than just groups. This patch adds
> the concept to yum. For more background info, see:
> 	https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/anaconda-patches/2012-July/000165.html

 From the backend POV, this looks fine to me (I assume the anaconda guys
are happy with the APIs they need?)

 From the UI POV though I think we need to integrate it into the current
groups. So you could just do: yum install @blah ... to get an
"installclass" group. I assume there are no plans to have installclasses
with the same name as a normal group (so we can treat that as a WTF)?
 Also are you sure you want to keep the feature that is display_order?

 Have to integrate it into the UI and the group storage, probably
reworking the output a lot with "group list" but this is a significant
help ... thanks.



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