On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Florian Festi <ffesti(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> For those cases, 2 approaches exist:
>
> 1) let all packages which provide such a plugin own the directory, they
> install a plugin/add-on to (This is the approach, which is being applied for
> packaging perl-modules)
>
> This approach, however is only functional when all packages providing such
> "plugins/add-ons" obey such a convention.
>
> 2) split out the plugin/add-on package into a separate package and let
> this spit-out package depend on the "base-package".
There is a third possible approach:
Split out the plugin dir into a separate package and let
plugin/add-on packages depend on it.
That is actually a very good idea. That way, you can even script the
following query: "which functionality do I have plugins for?" by doing
rpm -qa \*-filesystem
or whichever common naming convention we settle on.
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