On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:48:39AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Miroslav Lichvar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > > For sanity's sake on upgrades, leaving the libraries in the same > > > package name (multilib) would be best. > > > > I'm confused, do you want to keep the libraries in ncurses package? > > (This has nothing to to with OLPC, and everything to do with the distro) > > If the libraries move to a different package, we end up with ncurses-devel/ > ncurses-libs being multilib, instead of ncurses-devel/ncurses as we have > currently. This causes problems for upgrades with getting a no-longer-multilib > ncurses package off the system for the secondary arch. So, if possible, > keeping the libraries in the 'same' package as it was previously is preferred.
Ok, that makes sense. Unfortunately I don't see other way how to create a subpackage that will be installed in upgrade and have dependencies that would allow removing the subpackage. -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
