On 9/21/07, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elyess ZOUAGHI wrote: > > personnaly i dont want to have a > > complete package like gambas installed because i only need its runtime > > and this goes for very other packages. > > > > > Is this going to end up with a whole heap of foo-dev packages like what > happens on other distributions... I gave up on some distributions > because I was getting annoyed with that. Perhaps I was just too stupid > to remember to install them! > > I do see this extension to makepkg as a possible way to automatically > fix one of the oldest bugs in the database - > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3459 .
I've read this bug and noticed that a common problem many users have in this list is the idea of having -dev, -doc or -whatever packages that need to be fetched. What if we could add a way that the -dev, -doc, -* packages are really sub-packages, instead of a different package. And one could have a list of standardized sub packages he wants to always install ? That way (if we can find a simple way of doing this) a user could set a pacman config flag that says it always want to install, even when not directly needed by some dependency, so a user that wants all the devs can add the dev option and have it behave (with split packages) just like it is now. I would surely like having split packages but I have to agree that many users will be unhappy with having to fetch different packages for dev and stuff like that. I just believe we should investigate more the idea of true sub-packages (much like in Windows' .msi files, the way you can install parts of a software) instead of simply generating more packages without real connection between them. > > Allan > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
