Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Please read again what I wrote. For a distribution/distributor several separate subpackages are the right way to go. For a Redistributor of one product, one RPM is what customers expect.
I'm not sure there's a distinction. From the point of view of a customer of the re-distributor, they are the distributor, just as SUSE/Novell are for their present customers.
The use case is here that a company likes to create their own custom branding. For them it's easier to put all branding in one single RPM and supply that instead of building let's say 10+ different packages with e.g. two files in each.
For us as distributor with different people working on different packages, it makes sense to split them up. But for somebody that wants to change all branding, a single RPM might make more sense.
Imagine a security version update. New version may require branding update. All available updated (standalone) branding packages conflict with redistributor's bundle. It implies, that security update may trigger immediate action needed from the redistributor: update of the branding bundle. Without bundles, redistributor action is still required, but missing branding will not hard-block security update.
And if I understand Thorsten correctly, all he asks is that a single RPM is an option for a replacement branding - it's then up to the development team what is more convenient to them,
My current proposal + bundles makes mentioned problem blocker. Separate packages or more complicated proposals (patched source, symlinks) could allow to work-around this with a sub-optimal way: temporary picking of alternative branding. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec@suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966, +49 911 740538747 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org