On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:17:41 -0700, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 3. It would almost double the size of i386.rpms (These sse2 libs would > > have to be part of i386.rpms) - Is it worth it? > > The size of the actual DSOs is not the only factor in the RPM size. > This means that two RPMs are bigger then one RPM with two DSO versions. Just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if the extra optimised libraries are in a separate directory, wouldn't it be trivial to define a subpackage for them? Say we have libinfinite, which is a special library for executing infinite loops. There's an option to have an SSE2 optimised version of the library, which executes them even faster. libinfinite-0.1-1.i386.rpm contains /usr/lib/libinfinite.so.0 (and other common docs, utils, etc) A subpackage, libinfinite-sse2-0.1-1.i386.rpm, contains /usr/lib/sse2/libinfinite.so.0 (just the optimised version, depends on libinfinite) No doubling up, installable easily at any time, and removable by users who need the disk space (without breaking anything).
