comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 15 janvier 2009 16:47, Florian Festi a écrit :

> Doing things per packages gets too expensive:
> Even a small amount of work or possibility of error gets expensive and
> annoying if it has to be done in a lot of packages. The example we are
> looking at right now are scripts that are handling special types of
> files
> like: ldconfig, install-info, gtk-update-icon-cache, ... We hope to
> come up
> with a solution soon.
> Another idea under that topic is the (semi) automatic creation of sub
> packages. This could be used to address several other problems like
> multilib
> or language files. But right now it is only a vague idea...

BTW this is effectively what the new F11 fonts packaging guidelines
and framework do for fonts (in a crude way)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontpackages
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=78561

A review by people familiar with rpm internals would be much appreciated

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot