[Mageia-dev] Update of the rpm group policy

[Pascal Terjan]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Juan Luis Baptiste <juancho at mageia.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
>> On Saturday 08 September 2012 20:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
>>>  * Games/First Person Shooters (or simply Games/Shoot)
>>
>> Why not simply "Games/Action" ?
>> That will also include all kinds of action games, both shooters and none shooters alike.
>>
>
> Well then in that case put them all in Games/Other that already exist
> and that's it. The idea is to be able to find "First Person Shooter"
> like games, and we have already a lot of them (10+), IMO they deserve
> their own category.

Some data about Other groups that may need new categories:

$ urpmf --qf '%group' . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep Other
   2345 Development/Other
    716 Networking/Other
    366 Graphical desktop/Other
    318 Books/Other
    214 System/Configuration/Other
    158 Games/Other
     72 Sciences/Other
     20 Archiving/Other

And more generally:

$ urpmf --qf '%group' . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
   5994 Development/Perl
   5469 System/Libraries
   5412 Development/Java
   2345 Development/Other
   2214 Development/C
   1354 System/Internationalization
   1064 Development/PHP
   1018 Development/Ruby
   1016 System/Servers
    896 Development/Python
    716 Networking/Other
    698 Sound
    696 Graphical desktop/KDE
    653 Networking/WWW
    579 Video
    560 Databases
    552 System/Kernel and hardware
    546 Development/X11
    522 Development/KDE and Qt
    446 Text tools
    430 Graphics
    424 Office
    410 Development/C++
    366 Graphical desktop/Other
    338 Networking/Mail
    324 Networking/Instant messaging
    322 Development/GNOME and GTK+
    318 Books/Other
    313 System/X11
    313 Games/Arcade
    284 Monitoring
    258 System/Base
    230 Publishing
    223 File tools
    222 Graphical desktop/GNOME
    214 System/Configuration/Other
    160 Books/Computer books
    158 Games/Other
    158 Education
    150 System/Fonts/True type
    148 Graphical desktop/Xfce
    138 Communications
    136 Editors
    134 System/Configuration/Packaging
    128 System/Printing
    128 Networking/Remote access
    114 Networking/File transfer
    114 Games/Strategy
    108 Networking/IRC
    100 Archiving/Backup
     94 Sciences/Mathematics
     74 Sciences/Geosciences
     72 Sciences/Other
     71 System/Configuration/Hardware
     70 Games/Boards
     64 System/Configuration/Networking
     64 Sciences/Computer science
     62 Development/Kernel
     57 Emulators
     52 Graphical desktop/WindowMaker
     48 Graphical desktop/Enlightenment
     48 Games/Puzzles
     48 Development/Databases
     46 Documentation
     44 Archiving/Compression
     44 Accessibility
     40 System/Cluster
     38 Terminals
     38 Sciences/Chemistry
     36 Shells
     32 Toys
     30 Networking/News
     30 Archiving/Cd burning
     26 System/Configuration/Boot and Init
     26 Games/Cards
     24 Games/Adventure
     20 Sciences/Physics
     20 Archiving/Other
     18 Development/Libraries
     14 Sciences/Astronomy
     14 Books/Howtos
     10 System/Fonts/X11 bitmap
     10 Sciences/Biology
     10 Networking/Chat
     10 Graphical desktop/Icewm
     10 Development/Tools
      8 System/Fonts/Type1
      6 Games/Sports
      4 System/Configuration/Printing
      2 Graphical desktop/FVWM based
      2 Development/Debug
      2 Development

Looking at Development/Other:

$ urpmf --group Development/Other | cut -d: -f1 | cut -d- -f1 | sort |
uniq -c | sort -nr | head
    558 ocaml
    120 gambas3
    120 erlang
     50 mono
     26 harbour
     24 lua
     22 php
     20 perl
     20 juffed
     20 eclipse

So, ocaml, erlang and basic seem to need a category