My advice would be to make two packages: 

openimageio for the libraries, dev materials (headers and docs), and command 
line utilities (not iv; no Qt dependency)

openimageio-iv for just iv (dependent on openimageio and Qt)



On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> Just getting back to this!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it could make sense that way, sure.  The core libraries alone could 
> be all that are needed by apps that have OIIO as a dependency, but the 
> binaries are not all that big or complicated, so it's also not immediately 
> obvious what's to be gained other than saving a few MB.  (Another wrinkle: 
> how many of those apps or their users would not, at some point, need to use 
> one or more of the command line utilities?)
> 
> The space savings isn't from oiio itself, but iv brings in QT requirements 
> that may not already be installed.
> 
> 
> So it's a matter of taste.  I'd err on the side of following whatever 
> convention is typically used in Fedora for similar packages, if there are any 
> analogous situations. Certainly I wouldn't object if the Fedora style was to 
> break things up in such a way (say, oiio-libs, oiio-utils, oiio-iv, oiio-all).
> 
> Both subpackages or completely different package names are 
> acceptable/supported. My first inclination is to do a oiio-utils for the CLI 
> utilities but I'm on the fence on if I want to do a iv subpackage or if I 
> should just create a whole new packages just called "iv".
> 
> Richard
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