On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:00PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > [... Changing all specfiles by splitting out bin subpackages > > > > vs simply defining a new _bindir ...] > > > Yes, but it does involve much more work to do. > > Packaging is hard. Let's go shopping. No, the above is not hard to do, it is a straightforward thing to do that will occupy a full or more than one release cycle(s). I prefer to get F8 with some new features as well and not only a mass review again. Which wil involve thre times as many packages as the FC merge review which we didn't manage to finish. A better F8 and even time for you to go shipping. Win-win. > It helps a little bit if we fix RPM to actually make the _right_ > decision when it's forced to choose between conflicting files > (http://david.woodhou.se/rpm-4.4.2-prefer-elf32.patch), but really, RPM > shouldn't be making those decisions. Indeed. > It should just be installing what it's told to, and it shouldn't be > told to install stuff which conflicts. Agreed. But in your proposal of splitting out all bin parts, the bin parts would still conflict, so no /usr/bin/firefox and no /usr/bin64/firefox. Instead with the simply _bindir redefinition you save time, go shopping and can coinstall binaries of both archs. Win-win-win. BTW I hate shopping, if your proposal makes it easier not having to go shopping, then let's do it your way. ;) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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