On 09/23/2018 10:14 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le lundi 24 septembre 2018 à 00:57 +0200, Kevin Kofler a écrit : >> >> Another issue if you want to use metapackages for categorization is >> that UIs >> such as Dnfdragora, or whatever tool converts the metapackages to a >> representation those UIs will consume, would have to be told what >> packages >> are such categorization metapackages. > > That's trivially solvable by requiring they are named > metapackage-something > and contain a metapackage(something) provides > > That would not change the fact such categorization helps tend to rot > over time if not cared about. They would regularly miss composes due to > broken deps.
Metapackages have other issues too. They make it difficult to consume part of a group. You either have to have everything or nothing. With comps groups you can install a group, remove some packages you don't want and still get updates to the group, with metapackages it's all or nothing. kevin
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