[Fedora-packaging] Packaging clarification regarding bash-completion scripts

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Tue Feb 24 09:46:59 UTC 2009


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> For those cases, 2 approaches exist:
> 
> 1) let all packages which provide such a plugin own the directory, they 
> install a plugin/add-on to (This is the approach, which is being applied 
> for packaging perl-modules)
> 
> This approach, however is only functional when all packages providing 
> such "plugins/add-ons" obey such a convention.
> 
> 2) split out the plugin/add-on package into a separate package and let 
> this spit-out package depend on the "base-package".

There is a third possible approach:

Split out the plugin dir into a separate package and let
plugin/add-on packages depend on it.

> However, both approaches, are only fully functional when all packages 
> providing such "plugins/add-ons" obey such conventions.

This stays true for all possible approaches.

Florian




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