Heads up: Noarch Subpackages

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Feb 12 16:28:45 UTC 2009


Joe Orton wrote:
> I take it from the wiki page, that we should hold of on using this too 
> aggressively until some distro-wide guidelines are produced?
> 
> e.g. for -devel packages given that 99% of the content is generally 
> noarch-able there would be a lot of scope for splitting those up.

...except for the important symlinks-to-versioned-.so's? Doesn't that 
kind of break things for -devel unless you break it into -devel-libs and 
-devel-headers (eek :-( )?

I was thinking -doc would be more likely candidates :-).

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