[csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits
Dagobert Michelsen
dam at opencsw.org
Thu Oct 1 20:45:22 CEST 2009
Hi,
Am 01.10.2009 um 18:29 schrieb Philip Brown:
> The particular case in point:
> Dago is interested in splitting up "xpm", into "libxpm", and
> "libxpm_devel".
>
> The entire package, if it were one package, is 155k for sparc, and
> 88k for x86.
> The "devel" package, is 5k. yes, 5830 bytes.
I specifically didn't do it for size, but for clearness and
consistency. And I think
the tradeoff of having a clean split against one more package is IMHO
worthwhile.
Best regards
-- Dago
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