Re: Binaryless uploads
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brian May wrote:
>
> #1: One source code package by module is an overkill.
>
For whom? For instance under your scheme, a user of webmin-postfix will
also get webmin-sendmail depite the fact he is unlikely to need it. Think
of Webmin modules like Perl CPAN modules. It doesn't make sense to bundle
e.g. all the XML::* modules into one big package does it?
I think it will be more promising to follow Manoj's suggestion and
integrate my current script into the standard build system. (But how
exactly would that work?)
>
> #2. If you are going to split the packages up, and there is no
> prestine source to worry about, why not just create a seperate
> source package containing only the packages that this package
> is going to build? This would eliminate the bug in question, and
> would eliminate the concerns on non-free files in the main source
> code.
>
Yes this is what I'll do. I thought it would be harmless to include
non-free source for the ride as long as it wasn't built into a package but
Manoj has convinced me why that view is wrong.
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