On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:43 PM Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 16:37, Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dne 28. 03. 19 v 13:57 Tomasz Kłoczko napsal(a):
>> > dnf does not provide any signing functions and I was not even aware that 
>> > someone implemented in base dnf building
>> > functionalities (someone is using that?)
>>
>> No, DNF likely does not user rpmb and rpms.
>> Both libraries has 21K + 15K. It is really worth the work? Note that the 
>> split will affect ~ 16 other packages in
>> Fedora. And likely some outside of Fedora. They need to be notified of the 
>> split, reconsider their dependencies. For
>> saving 36K?
>
>
> Yes, I care about every possible (even smallest) cut on the elephant skin 
> which will die if thousand small cuts on his skin will be done :P
>
> If that does't matter why the <censored> rpm package build produces generates 
> so many subpackages??
> If on typical system most of those packages are not optional why make so many 
> subpackages? To make Packages table in rpm database longer only?
> Not mentioning about fact that even usability of current grouping of the rpm 
> files has zero usability in case of multilib scenarios (which could be some 
> logical reason for thatcase but isn't)
> Just for fun/Because we can(tm)?
>
> If may I point on one cardinal argument which is .. KISS!!!
>
> There is no any other single package which during build may require signing 
> library (only). Not keeping sign library in rpm-sign is purely artificial. In 
> other words probability that this package would be required in some multilib 
> scenarios is ZERO!
>
> Other things related to the rpm.
> Why in main rpm package is possible to find whole /usr/lib/rpm/platform? That 
> directory contains ONLY resources used during build!!! Why main rpm package 
> includes documentation about building packages? =:-#
>

They can be used at runtime as well, especially if you use
runtime-evaluated macros in scriptlets.

-- 
真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
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