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

[Bill Nottingham]

James Antill (james at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> 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?)

It's still being discussed.

>  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)?

Hadn't ruled that out one way or another - the other option would be to pick
a new magic starting character other than '@'.

>  Also are you sure you want to keep the feature that is display_order?

Can maybe drop it and just say for anaconda UI purposes it follows file
ordering.

Bill