[Bug 833573] Review Request: nettle - Low level crytopgraphic library

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833573

--- Comment #4 from Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > 2. I know hogweed is a library and on some other distros library packages
> > are always prefixed with lib, but as we don't have that convention in
> > Fedora, would it not be better to call the hogweed package just "hogweed" to
> > be consistent with "nettle"?
> 
> The nettle documentation refers to it as "libhogweed". An alternative name I
> could give this package is to make it a sub-package called "nettle-gmp" or
> "nettle-bignum". Another alternative is to leave libhogweed.so* in the
> nettle package, but I'd like to keep dependencies (gmp) to a minimum.

Either way I wouldn't call it a blocker but I did have a crazy idea I'd like
your opinion on.

What about not even creating a "nettle" binary package? Instead create 5
sub-packages exclusively.

libnettle
libhogweed
nettle-tools
libnettle-devel
libhogweed-devel

I like separating the devel packages so if you install one you don't
automatically pull in the other library.

I don't see anywhere where this isn't allowed...

Thoughts?

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