"Claes Bäckström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/19/07, Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Claes Bäckström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> > And also thinks that a pattern should not depend on rpm packages that >> > other rpm packages included in the pattern also depends on, as there >> > is no need for that. This is not a problem technical speaking it's >> > just harder to maintain and confusing to people. >> >> I'm not sure I understand you here. Could you rephrase this, please? >> > Well I can try to explain what I mean with an example. (names as so on > is just imagination) > > Say we have a backup pattern. Something like this: > ---- > securebackup (the tool that does the backups) > tar > bzip2 > openssh > --- > > The securebackup tool uses tar and bzip2 to do the backup then scp it > to another server. This means that securebackup rpm depends on tar, > bzip2 and openssh. > > In my meaning the backup pattern is wrong. It should only depend on > securebackup as that will install tar, bzip2 and openssh. This means > when securebackup is dead upstreams and no one will fork it. It's very > simple to change the backup pattern to depend on gnubackup that uses > tar, gzip and ssh instead. No need to change the backup pattern > removing bzip2 and adding gzip to it. > > I hope this example explains what I was talking about.
Then we agree completely. I might not have done it consequently in my patterns, so you find redundancy, please tell me and I fix it ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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