-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:30:41 +0000 > Von: "Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan.underwood@xxxxxxxxx> > An: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Betreff: Re: Guidelines for creating subpackages? > I imagine most packagers would react favourably to such requests, > given a reasonable use case, and even better, a spec file patch. Have > you submitted a patch for your vtk case for discussion to the package > maintainer? - Well, I had submitted a corresponding bug report, namely https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388211 which got closed immediately as "NOTABUG" based on the personal taste of the/one package co-/maintainer after which I felt compelled to bring the issue to this list in order to learn about how other community members think about it. - The "reasonable use case" is that as an exclusive GNOME user I'm encumbered with certain packages/toolkits that I'd like to get rid of on my system, and that current dependencies prevent me from doing so. -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list