Alexandre Moreira wrote: > On 9/21/07, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Elyess ZOUAGHI wrote: >>> personnaly i dont want to have a >>> complete package like gambas installed because i only need its runtime >>> and this goes for very other packages. >>> >>> >> Is this going to end up with a whole heap of foo-dev packages like what >> happens on other distributions... I gave up on some distributions >> because I was getting annoyed with that. Perhaps I was just too stupid >> to remember to install them! >> >> I do see this extension to makepkg as a possible way to automatically >> fix one of the oldest bugs in the database - >> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3459 . > > 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.
this is one of the most unique ideas i've read all day! > > 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. > >> Allan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> arch@archlinux.org >> http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
