On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:54:47 +0200, Petr Hracek wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to separate emacs-common into more packages (in rawhide > currently). > emacs-common contains all lisp files, info and man pages > Do you think that it is a good idea to separate them into groups like > > emacs-org (directory /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/org) > emacs-progmodes (directory /usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp/progmodes) > .... > > What do you thing emacs users? What would be the benefit? Would it reduce package dependencies a lot? Currently, emacs-common doesn't depend on many things. Are there inter-dependencies between the various script files? Would it only reduce the package size? Fragmentation of a package into too many subpackages will typically result in users installing "emacs*" because else it would be too much of a burden to track down the individual pieces that are needed/wanted. $ yum list emacs\*|wc -l 136 That's an overwhelming number of add-ons already. For run-time packages, I prefer splitting of subpackages for technical reasons, such as deps on optional stuff that decreases stability. I don't mind the size of a primary application package. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
