Re: Question regarding split of packages

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On 01/11/2012 10:20 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
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On 10/01/12 12:10, Simone Caronni wrote:
Hello,
I just stumbled upon this:

the plan is to separate the bacula-docs subpackage from bacula package
and create a new package bacula-docs.
(review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771941 )

My question is, is the split possible in existing trees, e.g in F16?
When carefully done, yes. The minimum requirement would be such a change to be "100% transparent to users within a Fedora release".

IMO, however, the better question would be "why to split out docs?".

In general, separate doc packages make sense in cases they are "very large" or in case the docs are "mostly irrelevant" to users (i.e. hardly anybody will want to read/install them).

In all other cases separate doc packages do not add many benefits but only add packaging complexity (esp. dependencies) and add sources of potential bugs.

I am not familiar with your package to be able to comment on your particular case.

Ralf
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