reducing distribution CD count

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Thu Feb 24 21:48:27 UTC 2005


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:32 -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> >Yea, that split was crack. 
> 
> Splitting the documentation packages out into a separate SRPM from the
> Exim binaries makes a lot of sense -- the docs are distributed
> separately, updated at different times, and built into a separate RPM
> package which should have been noarch. There is no overlap between them
> and the Exim dæmon itself. There was never any real reason for them to
> be inside the main exim SRPM in the first place. The point in fixing
> that now was to make it easier to drop the docs¹ if it was really
> necessary to make space, because upgrades won't suffer just due to the
> docs being older.

Yea, the split was not crack.

;-)

-- Elliot




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