2010/1/31 Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org:

Hi,

the Sugar activity guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SugarActivityGuidelines#Sample_SPEC

instruct using Sugar/Activities as the RPM Group. Is using non-standard RPM groups in Fedora really allowed? The Creating Package HOWTO suggests that it is not, although AFAIK no guideline actually states anything about it.

Of course, RPM groups are not very meaningful anymore as comps are used...

Let's take a step back. Why are RPM groups necessary anymore? Moreover, since it's a staticly defined list that runs the risk of being uselessly out of date in terms of practically named and defined categories, we either need to keep it up to date upstream, which means actively pointing out why we need it, or we should ask upstream to ditch it.

Just my two cents.

-Yaakov