Re: Packaging problem.
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 05:20, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:00:19PM +0100, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote:
> > To my mind it is not a good idea to include lib in a binary package, so
> > I don't want to do only one package.
>
> To be honest I don't know why most of the kde programs have libraries at
> all. Except for the ones that have kparts or plugins it makes very
> little sense since they will only be used by the one program. Libraries
AFAIU it the libraries are needed for the kdeinit hack, to speed
up startup time.
> that are only used by one program shouldn't be split out at all imho.
> And generally the ftp admin team frowns on the library packaging guide
> that states to split everything library into a libfoo libfoo-bin
> libfoo-dev. If we did that for all of KDE there would probably be an
> extra 300-400 packages, that would be pointless...
I agree. If lib is only needed by one program there should be
no extra pkgs.
Achim
>
> Chris
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