[Bug 498194] Review Request: zarafa - Zarafa Outlook Sharing and Open Source Collaboration

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--- Comment #16 from Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>  2009-11-01 19:58:53 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> Well, what exactly will Zarafa do for their own RPM package builds for the 6.40
> release? Will they split up as same or won't they do? I feel very uncomfortable
> to do these split-ups, if they don't do the same. And I still don't want to see 
> this package similar over-engineered and unusable such as the current Fedora 
> clamav package.  

Zarafa's Steve Hardy seems to like the split-up for 6.40. I highly doubt
they'll change their packaging of 6.30.

(In reply to comment #15)
> If there are sane use cases where users will really need only parts of the
> package then split the package there, but splitting for splitting's sake (e.g.
> like clamav) is not good.
> 

I agree with what you're saying here, but all of these are separate components
to the Zarafa architecture, and can be installed on separate servers.

> Also relying on an external vendor's packaging style is also not sane - when we
> say that Fedora follows upstream we mean the source code, not the packaging
> practice. Of course the other way, e.g. persuading upstream packaging to lean
> on our package style is always fine. :)  

This is going upstream, yes ;-)

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