Hi,
On 01/17/2012 04:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:16:19PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 01/17/2012 02:08 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I disagree. Like other "exotic languages", anything related to it should
remain "strictly optional".
Unlike other bindings which are binaries and link or require external
packages, vapi files are small plain text file that can be used to
read an API more easily than their C or gobject introspection gir
counterpars.
Irrelevant ... these files are only usable as with a vala toolchain
and thus are just "diskspace pollution" to users who have no use for
vala.
I agree with Ralf. Vala files are meaningless except for people who
care about vala, so they should go in a subpackage.
More to the point, presumably if the vala files were included in
*-devel, they'd also cause an explicit or implicit dependency on
vala-devel, which would mean the vala toolchain being pulled in for
many packages, and that's totally unacceptable.
I agree on that point, and as said in my original mail, I think
we should come up with a way to package vala "bindings" so that
they don't end up dragging in any extra deps.
Once that is done, then just adding the vala bindings to the
devel-package likely takes less disk space for those who
do install them, then the meta data needed for a separate subpackage,
and that metadata needs to be downloaded and *stored* by all users,
not just those installing the -devel package.
Regards,
Hans
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