Hi *, On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:55:32PM +0200, Oliver Braun wrote: > > I am currently thinking about moving the desktop icons and the distro > independent mime stuff into separate packages.
What do you mean by distro-independent mime-stuff? If this is the shared-mime-info stuff it is OK for me, but I for myself don't like the idea to install legacy mime-info/*.keys & info with the freedesktop-menu package. (The whole point of this package is to get rid of these) > I believe this will reduce the amount of additional space occupied by > the growing number of *-menus packages <300K each with a 90+MB download... > and also simplify the task of > maintaining those. > > My suggestion for the package names would be > > openofficeorg-desktop-icons > openofficeorg-mime-data > > Any other thought or objections ? Since these are just names,... What should those packages contain (a filelist would be handy) and where should the things contained be installed to? I have no objections against the desktop-icons package if it would only contain the icons in /usr/share/icons - but as the suse-menus package conatins /opt/gome/share/icons and /opt/kde3/share/icons... To sum-it up: I'm sceptical about this. If issue 46530 is not solvable for OOo 2.0 I vote against it no matter what they contain since identifying the relocatable/base packages will be impossible and thus lead to unnecessary installation errors. I'm also sceptical about the benefit. Esp. The size-issue doesn't seem to be worth the effort. (you don't need to include them in the tarball). The maintainance issue is clearer, but I think the effort is mainly in creating the makefile-magic for each package? You basically do the same things for each of the menu-packages - That's why I took another approach with the freedesktop-package (take the results of the red-hat package as a basis to finalize the package) So I suggest having a "master" makefile that does all the makefile stuff and let the menu-packages (spec-files) assemble the package (similar to the way the freedesktop-package is created - take the "master tree" and remove everything you don't need) This is about the same effort that you'll have with seperate desktop-icons and mime-data packages (maybe even less) ciao Christian PS: Is is really not possible to put the menu-packages into a subfolder of the release-tarball? http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46530 Or was this the typical "ahh, enhancement/feature -> lets reassign" workflow? (I guess so since my comment was ignored obviously) -- NP: Metallica - Devil's Dance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
