On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:03:33PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Nov-05, 05:13 (CST), Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When doing research about circular-deps, I looked at a lot of packages > > that are split between a binary package and a data package. This is a > > good thing since this reduce the total siez of the archive, however > > there are simple rules that should be followed: > > > > [*snip* good rules} > > > > 5) Of course move /usr/share/pkg to pkg-data. > > > > Why? If I install foo, I really expect it's shared data to be in > /usr/share/foo.
Well, the whole point of the package splitting is to move the architecture-independent part to a separate arch: all package. If you keep /usr/share/foo in the arch: any package, then there is no much point splitting it ? For example consider a game that has a small binary and a large dataset: /usr/games/foo /usr/share/games/foo/dataset You put /usr/games/foo in a arch: any package called foo and /usr/share/games/foo/dataset in a arch: all package called foo-data. Does it make sense now ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
