multilib paths and packaging for processor-specific extensions

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Sep 19 16:52:40 UTC 2005


> My second question is what are people's opinions about including all 
> architecture-specific libraries in a single i386 package vs. separating 
> them into subpackages. A base set of atlas libraries is a 5 MB package 
> (and bigger installed of course), part of the reason I think that the 
> Debian packages for atlas are all separated into subpackages (atlas-sse, 
> etc).

I would go for 1 big package. Reason: it's really unfunny to otherwise
make sure the right package gets installed automatically (other than
installing the lot anyway, at which point you might as well make one big
one)
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