On 04/09/06, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx> wrote:
First, one plan is to split xemacs-sumo to two. The smaller bit, xemacs-packages-base, will contain packages that upstream considers the minimal set: xemacs-base, efs, and mule-base. This will be compiled with xemacs-nox, and will be enough for people who choose to manage rest of the upstream lisp packages using XEmacs's built in tools instead of installing them from rpms. The second part, xemacs-packages, will contain practically rest of the current sumo and it will be compiled with the main X-enabled xemacs. These packages will not be called "sumo" because they no longer quite represent what upstream calls sumo either. Backwards compat Provides/Obsoletes will be there, naturally.
I think these packages would be much more sensibly named something like xemacs-sumo-base and xemacs-sumo-extras or somesuch - both should have sumo in the name. A package called xemacs-packages to Joe User might imply "install all xemacs packages that are available" i.e. some sort of meta package. sumo should definately be in the name.
Second part of the above plan is that the main xemacs package will no longer have a dependency to xemacs-packages (ex-sumo, due to the build dep loop above); it will have a dependency on xemacs-packages-base only.
Why is even this dependency necessary? Does upstream xemacs really require xemacs-sumo to build? If so, upstream should fix that, the xemacs tarball should build without the presence of xemacs-sumo.
So this is what it would look like (versions dropped for brevity): xemacs: dep on xemacs-common, xemacs-packages-base, provides xemacs(bin) xemacs-nox: depends on xemacs-common, provides xemacs(bin) xemacs-common: no xemacs* deps xemacs-packages-base: depends on xemacs-common xemacs-packages: depends on xemacs-packages-base
To repeat - there is nothing in these package names that tells the user that sumo is installed. Also, please strip out the source .el files into separate packages, as is done with emacs. Best wishes, Jonathan -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
