[Mageia-dev] RPM groups policy

Barry Jackson zen25000 at zen.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 13:05:26 CEST 2012


On 27/09/12 11:07, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
> Le 27/09/12 10:51,Pascal Terjan nous adresse ces quelques mots :
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Pierre-Malo Deniélou
>>> 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
>
> As I was saying earlier, no group classification is perfect. In the
> situation you describe, having pulseaudio in System/Base would be even
> more confusing. But if you were to choose between Sound/Editors and
> Convertors, Sound/Midi, Sound/Mixers, Sound/Players, Sound/Utilities,
> Sound/Visualization, where would you look first?
>
> You know none fits perfectly, I know that as well, even less for
> pulseaudio-module-jack or pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.
>
> But before everyting was in Sound: so confusing is maximum. Now it
> becomes a bit (but only a bit) easier. That's the point.
>
>>>> 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?
>
> Yes. By the principle of "Where else?" :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
Can it not stay in the top level "Sound" or does everything *have* to be 
in a sub group?


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