Hello, On Nov 5 10:44 Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote (excerpt):
making a good set of assumptions with various configure switches
And this is where we differ. In general, I believe, users should not be punished for learning more and understanding how things work. Feeling something is broken while just some non-mandatory functionality is not built-in is something that can be helped with user learning more just how to configure and compile it with that functionality which is really easy by just using the openSUSE build service; having built-in non-mandatory functionality can't. And seeing distribution making hackers life hard only to make life of uninformed users tiny bit easier is really frustrating. ;-) Seriously: I assume usually we configure a software to be compiled with very most of its possible functionality but that may cause tons of library packages (or things like X plus its libraries) to be required. If possible we could split the binary RPM into sub-packages and maintain the split (e.g. HPLIP and partially for Ghostscript) or we even have to maintain and keep in sync two source packages (e.g. ghostscript and ghostscript-mini). Both workarounds increase complexity which results more bugs. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org