Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

We'd like to discuss the following topics tomorrow.  Please send your
comments and suggestions as usual so that I can represent them.

thanks,
Andrea

* Smaller systems - what can be done?

  Goal: A system with 128 MB of space.

  Challenges are especially:
  * Languages and localization
  * documentation - > some packages have documentation split up already
  * theming -> some packages will be split up so that only one theme is
    in a package.

  For languages we discussed previously already the following and will
  implement this now:
  The idea is to add to spec file of packages a new rpm macro so that
  subpackages are created and then related subpackages are repacked for
  each language in our build system.  This way we would get
  e.g. basesystem-$lang and gnome-$lang packages and those can then be
  installed.

* Shared library policy (posted some time ago on opensuse-packaging, is
  now in the wiki)

* dbus restart

Making dbus a special reboot case like the kernel when updating (like
other distros - dbus is really not supposed to be restarted).


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