Hi,
the above thread about "removed docs" made me muse about it: sub-packages.
Even RedHat/Fedora builds a sendmail-docs sub-package (because they know
even the docs wouldn't help most administrators if they run into m4
errors?).
But sub-packages are useful for dynamic extensions too. Look at the PHP
PKGBUILD:
depends=('openssl' 'libjpeg' 'freetype2' 'libpng' 'pam' \
'gdbm' 'libxml2' 'openldap' 'ncurses' 'curl' 'libxslt')
makedepends=('apache' 'mysql' 'imap' 'postgresql' 'bzip2' 'smtp-server' \
'gd' 'fam' 'sqlite3' 'unixodbc')
99.9% of people just don't need openldap or ncurses extensions. Just as
99.9% don't need sendmail docs. Sub-packages would reduce runtime
dependencies for the core PHP binary package and would allow smaller
installations. With more and more PHP extensions to arise, more and more
people want them included in the PKG. This will lead to a big-bloat PHP
package (when not using sub-packages). What do you think?
J�rgen
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