[csw-maintainers] packages names normalization (long)

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Apr 29 18:36:51 CEST 2009


Hi Peter,

Am 29.04.2009 um 18:17 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>
> Thank you Dago for your quick and appropriate answer.
>
>>> Giving a full example is probably a good way to enhance the
>>> documentation of this standard. Consequently, here is the  
>>> splitting of
>>> the autogen project:
>>
>> Bad example IMHO, as the sole purpose of autogen is to aid
>> in software development and needed for compilation. No user
>> will use it.
>
> I know that it's an artificial, viz. inappropriate, example.  
> However, I
> choose it because I had a lengthy discussion with Phil about the  
> need to
> split it (I wanted to deliver it as an unique package, he had the
> opinion that I should split)

To make a long story short: If there are packages that depend
on the .so-files split out _rt, otherwise I would argue to
leave it as one package as it is only valuable to developers
anyway.

Phil, did you have other reasons for the split?


Best regards

   -- Dago



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