KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Jun 20 13:33:12 UTC 2006
Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 20/06/06, Hugo Cisneiros
> <hugo at devin.com.br> wrote:
>
>> For example: if you install kdegames with yum, it adds all the
>> sub-packages as
>> dependencies. But if you later uninstall kdegames-foo, it wil only
>> uninstall
>> kdegames-foo and the kdegames meta-package. All other subpackages will
>> remain
>> untouched.
>
>
> OK - I'd missed that subtelty, sorry. I suppose that's the best (most
> consistent) situation that can be hoped for.
Or, follow what koffice in Extras did, and use a meta-package named
koffice-suite. A nice advantage of this approach is that since the old
name is no longer being used, we have the opportunity to drop all those
darn Epoch's from kde packaging.
-- Rex
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