Hugo Cisneiros wrote:
I have just submitted a blog post on this:
http://www.devin.com.br/eitch/blog/2006/06/17/kde-sub-packaging-approach-on-fedora/
And I'm bringing this discussion into the list too. I'll paste the post here
too:
KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora
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The Current Approach
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I talked with many people (20+) and all of them said the same thing: this is
really annoying. “There’s got to be a way to install only kopete or kmail,
instead of the whole collection of programs”.
The Solution: A Sub-Packaging Approach
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This is already used in some distributions, and users appear to like it.
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Downside: Maintainership
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While having these advantages above, we gain a more complicated specfile,
My personal take (following one of Fedora's core mantras)... upstream,
upstream, upstream... how does upstream distribute/package things? IMO,
packaging should generally follow suit, and if you don't like that, take
your beef upstream(*).
KDE sub-packaging is/will-be a lot more work, for what I consider to be
little benefit: primarly less disk space used (and what's a few MB
between friends these days?).
OTOH, if package maintainers can handle the extra complexity and don't
mind extra workload associated with supporting the sub-package approach,
then I don't think anyone is going to tell you that you can't do it.
-- Rex
(*) Unfortunately, I've seen people take this particular beef upstream
before, and kde dev's responses are generally disappointing: they
(generally) claim this is the job of the distro packager(s). *sigh*.
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