On Sat 2007-09-22 13:22 , Jackson Robertson wrote: > 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.
I think developers don't want makepkg to be able to split package because they want to split all packages in the debian style. Splitting packages would be useful for software like kde-* or gcc. Bear in mind that pacman can be used by distros different from Arch. Cheers, -- Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino Arch Linux Trusted User Please send personal email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB
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