> I am packaging a program that has two front ends, one for Gtk and other for > Qt. > Is there a standard packaging structure to handle such packages? > I see two methods to do this : > > 1. Use an empty "meta" package that pulls in a default (gtk) front end. E.g > : > Pname (meta) -> Pname-common -> Pname-gtk > Pname-gtk -> Pname-common and > Pname-qt -> Pname-gtk > > Or, > > 2. Create sub packages for each front end, i.e *-gtk and *-qt, that depend > on a common package. So : > > Pname-gtk -> Pname > Pname-qt -> Pname
either is fine. 1 is just a variant of 2 with the addition of the metapackage really, which I personally consider not necessary, but I also consider it something left to the discretion of the maintainer in question. -- rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
