On Tue, Feb 26, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
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.
That's a nogo for a Enterprise distribution.
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.
Depending on trademarks, contracts or so, it will hard-block a security update. Especially the trademark problematic can lead to big problems even on openSUSE. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org