On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:55:10PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I agree with Ralf. Vala files are meaningless except for people who > > care about vala, so they should go in a subpackage. > > So is gobject-introspection then. Not everybody care about it, or > systemtap, gdb python macros, valgrind..
That's right, and that's why we have -debuginfo subpackages. [...] > > More to the point, presumably if the vala files were included in > > *-devel, they'd also cause an explicit or implicit dependency on > > vala-devel, which would mean the vala toolchain being pulled in for > > many packages, and that's totally unacceptable. > > But we don't care having implict&explicit depedency on a browser or python. Actually many people do care and worry about this a lot. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
