Guidelines for creating subpackages?

[Joachim Frieben]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:30:41 +0000
> Von: "Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com>
> An: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Betreff: Re: Guidelines for creating subpackages?
> I imagine most packagers would react favourably to such requests,
> given a reasonable use case, and even better, a spec file patch. Have
> you submitted a patch for your vtk case for discussion to the package
> maintainer?

- Well, I had submitted a corresponding bug report, namely

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388211

  which got closed immediately as "NOTABUG" based on the personal taste
  of the/one package co-/maintainer after which I felt compelled to
  bring the issue to this list in order to learn about how other
  community members think about it.

- The "reasonable use case" is that as an exclusive GNOME user I'm
  encumbered with certain packages/toolkits that I'd like to get rid
  of on my system, and that current dependencies prevent me from
  doing so.
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