On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:35 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

finally getting around to f12 beta, and some of the groupings of software seem a bit odd.

• wouldn't "publican" make sense under "Authoring and Publishing"?

and perhaps "xmlto"? others?

Re: publican - Probably best to discuss with the Fedora Docs Team (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project) or the publican maintainer.

xmlto is listed as a default package under "Authoring and Publishing"

• under Editors, what about gedit? nano? pico?

gedit is a default package in the GNOME Desktop environment nano is a default package in the Base group pico is provided by alpine which is included in the "Text-based internet group"

• how did minicom end in "Electronic Lab"?

I see minicom in both "Electronic Lab" and "Dial-up networking".

Perhaps a good question for Chitlesh (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ElectronicLab_Spin) on why it's listed under electronic lab.

• under Servers, why does "Directory Server" represent samba, while

"Windows File Server" represents system-config-samba? that's just weird, isn't it?

samba is optional for the "Directory Server". While, samba is a mandatory package in the "Windows File Server" group.

• i'm sure i'll regret asking this, but why isn't "httpd" listed under

"Web Server"?

It's listed as a mandatory package under the 'web server' group. So you don't see it in the list of optional packages.

Additional information on how these groups of packages are generated and maintained ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_gro.... Specifically, you can examine the contents of the different optional/required/mandatory packages in each group at http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/comps/comps-f12.xml.in?view=markup

Thanks, James