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: nbd - Network Block Device https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330951 ------- Additional Comments From pertusus@xxxxxxx 2007-10-13 20:03 EST ------- (In reply to comment #6) > If there are further concerns about the package we can address it after initial > import. Ok. > Eric does need practice on updating an existing package and requesting > builds. That's not very right, since all the fedora contributors should be treated equally, but not a big deal either. (In reply to comment #5) > > The server and the client should certainly be in different > > packages, especially since according to the README they > > shouldn't be installed on the same computer. > > I disagree that it is necessary to split this package. It would be overly > pedantic to do so. It is certainly not harmful to have both installed on the > same system but to use only one or the other. > > On a more general level, we really want to avoid gratuitous package splits, as > every additional package slows down every yum transaction. This is a tiny and > simple package with no real benefit in splitting. I didn't said it was a must. The yum transaction slowing is not a good reason in my opinion, if this is a concern, then we won't be able to scale anyway. However it is true that splitting a package like this one has advantages and disadvantages: Advantages: * since only one of both should be installed, it reduces the size of an installation. Of course this is by a small amount, but for this specific software one could imagine setups where size matters. * having things that are not useful not installed makes administration simpler. Disadvantages: * more complexity at the packaging level * 2 packages, so the user has to know that the package is split (although the names should be pretty straightforward to find out) It seems to me that from a user point of view, having a split package is better in that case (and in all the client/server cases, in my opinion). In the end, leaving it to the packager seems right to me, still this has to be discussed. > Please leave this to the user for now. nbd can be used in many different ways. > LTSP specifically creates devices on-the-fly for an arbitrary number of > clients, so it is wrong for the nbd base package to make any assumptions. Fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review