Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626 ------- Additional Comments From pertusus@xxxxxxx 2006-10-30 07:35 EST ------- (In reply to comment #67) > 2) tcd-utils is a separate tarball, a small one, but needed for building > your "xtide" rpms. So, you decided to include it, thereby defeating the > purpose of the upstream split. Among other side-effects, you need to > push new xtide, libtcd, libtcd-devel, xttpd, tcd-utils packages whenever > one out of two upstream packages changes. Further, tideEditor, which is > part of tcd-utils and not put into a separate rpm, adds a dependency on > the rather large Qt. This reduces the benefit of a separate tcd-utils rpm, > as now Qt is needed when installing the small *tide_db tools. I my opinion this is the result of a broken upstream split, since upstream should have put tideEditor with xtide, and not with the *tide_db tools. Maybe this comes from historical reasons (because the original tcd-utils author isn't the xtide author), and not from technical reasons. > 3) And finally, XTide, split into multiple small rpms, is "enhanced" with > a strict dependency on a 40M data rpm. Without wvs, xtide or tideEditor are ugly. Admitedly the 2 high resolution wvs data files are certainly not very usefull for xtide, but removing them from wvs adds complexity. > The current package split is neither obvious nor convenient for the users. > Seriously, considering the special target group of XTide and friends, > I wouldn't even mind an all-in-one package with *optional* data. wvs cannot really be optional, there are no coast boundaries without it. I don't really like having xttpd installed together with the graphical tools, but I wouldn't object a all-in-one package (or with only libtcd, libtcd-devel subpackages), since indeed it is more convenient. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review