Re: Guidelines for creating subpackages?

["Christopher Stone" <chris stone gmail com>]

On Dec 1, 2007 9:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> > This is an *extremely* important topic.
> >
> > Let's face it, if Fedora wants to have any hope of becoming a base
> > distribution for all other distributions, then all optional requires
> > will need to be split into sub-packages.
> >
> > We must have as fine a granularity in our packages as possible.
>
> When/if it makes sense, and doesn't create an unduly increased maintainance
> burden, sure.

All I am saying is that if we want Fedora to be used as a base
distribution for other distributions, we need to start focusing a lot
more as a community on making sub-packages for optional requirements.