Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-12 Thread James Antill
On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 10:33 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le dimanche 11 avril 2010 à 10:06 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit : Hello! 2010/4/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: So you are

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-12 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 16:56 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: I did some investigation, and find a way to completely modularize whole Erlang package. In a few words - main package consists of purely virtual 'erlang' package and a dozens of sub-packages (from erlang-appmon to erlang-xmerl - one

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-11 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello! 2010/4/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: So you are proposing a metapackage. Fedora has historically frowned at metapackages, we prefer to create comps groups to bundle multiple packages together. Sorry, but this looks like purely non-technical argument for me (I mean

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 11 avril 2010 à 10:06 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit : Hello! 2010/4/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: So you are proposing a metapackage. Fedora has historically frowned at metapackages, we prefer to create comps groups to bundle multiple packages together.

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-11 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
Hi, 2010/4/11 Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com: Hello! 2010/4/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: So you are proposing a metapackage. Fedora has historically frowned at metapackages, we prefer to create comps groups to bundle multiple packages together. Sorry, but this looks

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-11 Thread Chris Weyl
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le dimanche 11 avril 2010 à 10:06 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit : Hello! 2010/4/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: So you are proposing a metapackage. Fedora has historically frowned at

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-10 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: I did some investigation, and find a way to completely modularize whole Erlang package. Sounds great! Also I'm sure that we need to push this change into both F-12 I object to this on general principle. Pushing

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 10 avril 2010 à 16:56 +0400, Peter Lemenkov a écrit : I did some investigation, and find a way to completely modularize whole Erlang package. In a few words - main package consists of purely virtual 'erlang' package and a dozens of sub-packages (from erlang-appmon to erlang-xmerl -

Re: Heads up! Erlang package becomes modularized in Fedora.

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Lemenkov
2010/4/10 Colin Walters walt...@verbum.org: Also I'm sure that we need to push this change into both F-12 I object to this on general principle.  Pushing sweeping changes to infrastructure packages is not what stable updates are for. This update is fully API/ABI compatible with previous