Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[David Bolt <bcrafhfr-cnpxntvat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:-

> On Tue, Feb 26, David Bolt wrote:

> > That way has the benefits of havng all the brandng in one place, but it
> > also means that there may be a very large part of included artwork in
> > that package that isn't actually required by any other packages that are
> > installed.
>
> Artwork is not that problem, but branding could also be a shared library
> or something similar. And in that case, you could get problems with
> dependencies.

I can see that. What I can't see is why there would be any branding in a
shared library. The only reason I could see is that there's an embedded
image included, and that's not a good idea if you're wanting to allow
for re-branding.


Regards,
        David Bolt

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