KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

[Rex Dieter]

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