On 05/09/2012 04:42 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2012, Olivier Bilodeau wrote:
> 
>> I contacted the maintainer. He gave me two other things to do:
>>
>> - vim plugin should be separately [sub]packaged
>> - build the git doc with it and it shall still be pretty
>>
>> I'll get to tasks, eventually, and let you guys know.
> 
> I'll give you my view of sub-packages on this. I think Fedora is making
> the mistake to create too many sub-packages and loosing control over
> what makes packages useful.
> 
> I don't see the point in making a separate vim sub-package, given that
> the vim syntax file is pretty small, a sub-package does not offer
> anything subtantially, a subpackage increases the chance that someone
> will not install it and does not know it exists which is bad for the
> repository and the project (in this case vim and/or asciidoc) and most
> of all, there is no real downside to shipping the plugin even when vim
> is not installed.
> 
> So my opinion is that these sub-package rules is a form of bureaucratic
> autism, where any introduced rules are more important than the case at
> hand and defy common sense.
> 
> Of course, there are cases where they can make sense.
> 

I see your point. I'll ask the maintainer.

However I just realized that most vim ftplugin are provided by
vim-commons (it provides 175 of them) and not individually provided by
git, dpkg, mplayer or xfree86 (as a few examples).

So maybe that's the route it should take?

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