Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
[I posted this before, but no one replied, so sending again to
fedora-devel-list]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225406#c7
I would like to propose that e2fsprogs generate four subpackages for
the independent libraries that it contains. These four libraries are
used by other packages that don't need the whole of e2fsprogs-devel
(eg. krb5_workstation uses libss, qpid uses libuuid, and many programs
use libcom_err).
I'm generally open to the suggestion, but last time I had this concern...
The next problem I see is that by putting things like blkid,
uuidgen,
compile_et, mk_cmds into the lib$FOO packages, they are now no longer
multilib-safe; the binaries will collide.
is this going to be a subpackage-explosion? for example:
uuid.rpm (with the binary tool(s))
uuid-libs.rpm
uuid-devel.rpm
and so on for each of the above binary+libs?
-Eric