Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > [I posted this before, but no one replied, so sending again to > fedora-devel-list] > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225406#c7 > > I would like to propose that e2fsprogs generate four subpackages for > the independent libraries that it contains. These four libraries are > used by other packages that don't need the whole of e2fsprogs-devel > (eg. krb5_workstation uses libss, qpid uses libuuid, and many programs > use libcom_err). I'm generally open to the suggestion, but last time I had this concern... > The next problem I see is that by putting things like blkid, uuidgen, > compile_et, mk_cmds into the lib$FOO packages, they are now no longer > multilib-safe; the binaries will collide. is this going to be a subpackage-explosion? for example: uuid.rpm (with the binary tool(s)) uuid-libs.rpm uuid-devel.rpm and so on for each of the above binary+libs? -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
