On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:-
On Tue, Feb 26, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote:
One central RPM will either - make all updates of branding impossible or - need relatively complicated scripts to allow installation of multiple brandings in parallel
IIRC it was decided on the dist meeting to keep it simple and use separate subpackages.
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. Are these customers really going to notice several small packages that, by looking at the package names, have something to do with the package they are branding? Or are they going to notice a very much larger package, one that may or may not have anything to do with the ones they're installing? My guess is that, if the packages were distributed on physical media, they aren't going to notice either. If the packages are being downloaded individually, they're much more likely to notice a single package rather than several smaller packages, especially since the larger package will be larger than all the small ones. Finally, if there is a goal of reducing the footprint of the installation, having one RPM that contains the branding for every package is going in the opposite direction. One big RPM is going to contain branding for packages that aren't installed, where multiple branding packages won't. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a1 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org