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Re: [opensuse-packaging] libfoo-util , libfoo-bin or libfooN-[util|bin] ?
- From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:52:36 +0200
- Message-id: <470F51F4.4030005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Matz schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>
>>> libfoo-tools - at least that is what has the most existing packages
>>> (the -tools suffix).
>> True, but interestingly Novell employees don't seem to like those since
>> for 10.3 I know of one being merged to the library package for a
>> non-reason :-(
>
> Which one? Because normally that would be against the lib policy (having
> binaries in the libbla2.rpm).
mozilla-nss which doesn't conform to the lib policy right now at all but
at least there were libraries and tools separated but got merged for
reasons I don't understand because it easily could have been done using
proper dependencies or patterns.
Wolfgang
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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>
>>> libfoo-tools - at least that is what has the most existing packages
>>> (the -tools suffix).
>> True, but interestingly Novell employees don't seem to like those since
>> for 10.3 I know of one being merged to the library package for a
>> non-reason :-(
>
> Which one? Because normally that would be against the lib policy (having
> binaries in the libbla2.rpm).
mozilla-nss which doesn't conform to the lib policy right now at all but
at least there were libraries and tools separated but got merged for
reasons I don't understand because it easily could have been done using
proper dependencies or patterns.
Wolfgang
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