[csw-maintainers] Package naming of splitting of library-packages

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Tue Dec 22 16:15:46 CET 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Now the question: library-packages usually don't have
> runtime-subpackages, but in this case it would IMHO be
> useful. Thoughts? Phil?

The solutions I've seen in other places were to create a *-tools
optional package with the binaries.  For example, Debian has libnss3
with the libraries and libnss3-tools with the binaries.  In the case
of libcddb it would make something along the lines of:

CSWlibcddb
CSWlibcddb-tools

Maciej



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