On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:38:34AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote: > > Ideally you'd split off the docs, etc into -common.noarch packages > (lot of work) Tons! You are talking about a non-cursory rewrite of a huge number of spec files, coming from different places you do not always control, and keeping these specs _correct_, i.e. no forgetfulness, mistakes, ignorance, etc, for all future revisions. > Obviously, there's a space cost. That one is trivial in most cases, although when trying fit a distro on a set of CDs it may be not so, but I think that you grossly underestimate other costs which will be real. > But it solves the removal issues, Indeed, for a significant price. OTOH it looks to me that this should be solvable inside of rpmlib, if not already solved, but this is not a conversation on this list, I think. Computers are much better in keeping track of long lists of small details that you ever have a hope to be. Look how often in %changelogs you will see 'added missing "Requires"', or "BuildRequires", and many such changes are not even recorded. The problem which started all this thread, i.e. "asynchronous updates" causing conflict complaints, in no way will be helped by a split you envision. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list