Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (151 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag 06 Januar 2008 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:07:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> > > So that leaves two basic questions for me:
> > >
> > > What is the purpose of a sub-package if it is always hard required by
> > > the main package?
> > >
> > > And what I understood is the recommended (or even mandatory?) way to
> > > handle language package dependencies the one described here:
> > > http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies/Language
> > >
> > > If that's correct I think that the %lang_package macro is useless since
> > > it doesn't define a locale provides.
the bundles provide the locale, the mc-lang package will always be pulled in,
so there is no need to provide the languages.

> > > So what's the policy (or recommendation) actually?
> >
> > The %name-lang is also provided by the bundle-lang-* RPMs, so we can
> > leave out languages...
>
> Ok, so it works for those bundled in bundle-lang-* RPMs that way.
No, but we made it a general recommendation to split out langs so we can 
bundle as needed (if mc goes on GNOME CD)

Greetings, Stephan

-- 
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx