Re: Is 50+ RPM Subpackages too extreme?

[Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2019-11-26 at 20:49 -0500, Chris wrote:

Hi guys,

I just wanted to poll you for some advice.  My notification tool I maintain supports more than 50+ services now, but the only package isolation I do within 2 RPMs.  One for the actual CLI (for admin's who want to use it) and the other is for the backend library (for Devs). I only ask because each supported service is very modular.

I kind of like the way nagios-plugins breaks apart it's check_scripts into many sub-packages, but 50+ subpackages seems a bit extreme... or is it? It certainly seems like a bit of a nightmare to maintain; it would be one very large .spec file.

You can see the directory structure here on GitHub:
https://github.com/caronc/apprise

Effectively every single file in "apprise/plugins/Notify*.py" is it's own plugin-able module.  You can add/remove content into here and the tool adapts. Thus the sub-packages would only include 1 file per RPM.

Is it advisable to go this route? I presume there is no easy way to transition without breaking users existing setup? I don't know what the d/l stats are; so there may not be a large enough audience to even need to worry about this?

What are your thoughts and/or advice?

IMHO don't do a sub-package if you haven't a good reason , what is the benefit ?

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