On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:38:42 -0400
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 09/01/2013 03:09 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1003196
> So far, it has always been a packaging mistake to duplicate files
> (and their Provides as a consequence) in multiple subpackages.
Well, there are a few places where I can see duplicating files making
sense (but certainly not to the degree demonstrated in the mate
packages).
For example, in the SSSD package, we duplicate the 'sssd_pac' libexec
binary in both the 'sssd-provider-ad' and 'sssd-provider-ipa' plugin
subpackages, rather than add useless metadata for an extra common
subpackage for both to depend on. It seems wasteful to have a whole
subpackage for one 150k binary.
You may need to duplicate license files, but I really can't see why you
would duplicate binaries. It just makes no sense. That's what packages
are for: eliminating redundancies and tracking dependency info.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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