Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

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Le samedi 10 avril 2010 à 16:56 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit :

> I did some investigation, and find a way to completely modularize
> whole Erlang package. In a few words - main package consists of purely
> virtual 'erlang' package and a dozens of sub-packages (from
> erlang-appmon to erlang-xmerl - one sub-package for each
> %{_libdir}/erlang/lib/* item). The main virtual package 'erlang'
> depends on every subpackage, so if you prefer to install/upgrade
> erlang by typing "yum install erlang" you won't see any difference.

So you are proposing a metapackage. Fedora has historically frowned at
metapackages, we prefer to create comps groups to bundle multiple
packages together.

The one problem a comps group won't solve is upgrade paths, but that can
be handled by a temporary metapackage

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrade_paths_%E2%80%94_renaming_or_splitting_packages#.28n:m.29_Many_to_many_replacement


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