On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 November 2008 at 14:10, James Hubbard wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
>> <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday, 25 November 2008 at 18:28, James Hubbard wrote:
>> >> Why does anyone go searching for a srpm? Everyone has their reasons.
>> >> You are assuming that the user has those tools. What if the user is
>> >> on another system or does not have net connectivity? I will go back
>> >> to older versions of fedora to download srpms. However, I usually
>> >> know the package name.
>> >>
>> >> I do not believe that not having a separate srpm for this will be a
>> >> problem. Anyone that needs it will probably figure it out. I think
>> >> that having packages where there are multiple applications in one rpm
>> >> is more of a problem from the end user stand point.
>> >
>> > You can always check which src.rpm a package was built from with rpm -qi.
>>
>> The post by Till Maas that I was responding to made that point. Did
>> you miss my point about being on a system that does not have rpm
>> installed? I have frequently downloaded rpms and occasionally srpms
>> while using a windows machine. In many U.S. government facilities,
>> it would be impossible to get a linux box onto a network with Internet
>> connectivity. There are corporate networks where it would be
>> forbidden to connect a linux system.
>
> But it's fine to connect a Windows box? How idiotic. Anyway, I believe
> koji lets you search for rpms and files.
>
>> >> The example that sticks out my head is the kdeskd rpm.
>> >
>> > yum search kdeskd returns no results.
>>
>> My mistake. The package name is kdesdk instead of kdeskd. There have
>> been times when I wanted to install Umbrello only. Unfortunately, it
>> installs all of the kde software development packages such as
>> kdevelop.
>
> No, it doesn't:
> # yum install /usr/bin/umbrello
> ...
[snip]
I see that kdevelop is it's own package, so I mispoke when I included
it. However if you look at the included applications you'll see a
list of items. Most of them are things that I don't even care about.
yum info kdesdk
Name : kdesdk
....
Description: A collection of applications and tools used by developers,
: including: * cervisia: a CVS frontend * kate: advanced text editor
: * kbugbuster: a tool to manage the KDE bug report system *
: kcachegrind: a browser for data produced by profiling tools (e.g.
: cachegrind) * kompare: diff tool * kuiviewer: displays designer's
: UI files * lokalize: computer-aided translation system focusing on
: productivity and performance * umbrello: UML modeller and UML
: diagram tool
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