Re: groups storage - some common ground here too?

> Is the purpose to group similar packages together for ease of
> presentation, or to actually create some relationship between packages? 
> For grouping, Red Carpet just maps various RPM "Groups" (and the dpkg
> equivalent, I don't remember what it is exactly now) into friendlier
> categories for end-user presentation.

This more an arbitrary grouping mechanism. For example - you can create
a 'Web server' group - and then do a install of that 'group' and get all
the packages of a certain type (mandatory, optional, or default)
installed.

it's not necessarily dependency-oriented. you should be able to use any
taxonomy to organize them.

-sv