On 6/14/06, Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dream on! As long as all those subpackages are generated from the same SRPM you will save nothing and get all of them if the SRPM changes.
I suppose you are right, at least at the moment. Hopefully one day if the build system detects that a subpackage hasn't changed then it would not update that particular rpm.
Where subpackes help is to limit the amount of requirements the program has. That's highly used on heavy customized servers and less so on the desktop. I like how it's done for git in fedora extras: git is a meta package which requires all subpackages making it very easy and intuitive to get it. So having something like wine being the meta package and the actual wine subpackage being renamed to wine-core would give the user friendliness and choice for those who need it.
Sounds like a good idea. n0dalus.
