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Re: Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm wanting to split up the lib{xslt,xml2} into
> seperate -doc, -devel, -python,
> > etc, packages. I figure I should wait until the next release, but just
> wanted to
> > hear is there's any thoughts pro or against this. This saves bandwidth for
> the
> > user that only needs lib{xslt,xml2} (the runtime(s)) and means there is no
> > change required to the setup.hint files on sources.redhat.com to this to
> happen.
> >
> > My inted layout is
> >
> > libxml2 the runtime library
> > libxml2-doc manuals, docs, etc
> > libxml2-devel headers and static libs
> > libxml2-python python bindings
> > libxml2-perl perl modules (XML::)
> >
> > libxslt ...
> > libxslt-doc ...
> > libxslt-devel ...
> > libxslt-python ...
>
> That could be very useful from those of us still stuck on modems.
Yeah, me being one of them. :-)
> When you do, you could move /usr/share/doc/* to /usr/doc/* to conform with
> most other cygwin packages.
I've done that. I'm going to do this tomorrow if no one disagrees, as all it
takes is uploading new packages.
Elfyn
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