On 11/08/2007, Robert Scheck <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Evening folks, > > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:27 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:01:00AM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote: > > > > I want to announce a change I made in the new db4, that may affect > > > > you from the packaging POV if your package is dependent on db4. It is > > > > that I moved all the C++ stuff to db4-cxx and db4-cxx-devel subpackages > > > > to reduce dependency bloat (#220484). > > > > > > I can understand the splitting of the runtime bits, but why split the > > > *-devel package? > > > > +1. Splitting the -devel package is a rather significant alteration, for > > little benefit (and shouldn't increase dependency bloat). > > thousands of -devel packages is in my not so humble opinion what the > reporter of bug #220484 would like to see. And I don't believe, there's any > real benefit of doing so, so please avoid it. We're living in the 3rd year- > thousand and I don't want to calculate what 5 MB of disk space could cost. Thirded. Consider that good ol' Slackware does not even split development files out of their main packages! -- Michel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
