On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:52:01AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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? I just spent a bit of time trying to just build e2fsprogs for 386 on x86-64, and have come to the conclusion that multilib is even more broken than last time I tried it ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 75 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
