Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:51:26AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: >> A far better solution is to split the libraries that would use say aalib >> into a subpackage so that you can install the base package without >> needing aalib, >> and choose to install the subpackage that might pull in the aalib dep. >> The OLPC project has helped to identify a lot of these scenarios and to >> split out functionality as such. > > Or not. This may be useful for OLPC, but aalib is, what, 164k? Is that > really worth the overhead of a zillion more subpackages? I think Jesse was just using aalib as an example. Packagers certainly need to weight the advantages and disadvantages to subpkgs, and where significant dependency/space savings would warrant their usage. -- Rex -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
