On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:24 -0300, Alexandre Moreira wrote: > I've read this bug and noticed that a common problem many users have > in this list is the idea of having -dev, -doc or -whatever packages > that need to be fetched. > > What if we could add a way that the -dev, -doc, -* packages are really > sub-packages, instead of a different package. And one could have a > list of standardized sub packages he wants to always install ? > > That way (if we can find a simple way of doing this) a user could set > a pacman config flag that says it always want to install, even when > not directly needed by some dependency, so a user that wants all the > devs can add the dev option and have it behave (with split packages) > just like it is now. > > I would surely like having split packages but I have to agree that > many users will be unhappy with having to fetch different packages for > dev and stuff like that. > > I just believe we should investigate more the idea of true > sub-packages (much like in Windows' .msi files, the way you can > install parts of a software) instead of simply generating more > packages without real connection between them.
+1 This sounds like a good way of handling this issue. I hated the dev packages in ubuntu and it was one of the reasons I started searching for a new distro. I would hate to see -dev packages but if it has to be done I would be for this idea. That is if it's possible. Jackson _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
