mingw-filesystem-scripts

[Farkas Levente]

On 07/01/2011 06:26 PM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Farkas Levente schreef op di 28-06-2011 om 10:56 [+0200]:
>> hi,
>> why there is a mingw-filesystem-scripts package and not move everything
>> into mingw-filesystem?
>> i don't see any rational reason for this.
> 
> Hi Levente,
> 
> The most important reason of the existence of this package is to avoid
> dependency bloat. Here's the dependency tree :
> 
>                  mingw-filesystem-scripts
>                         |     |
>        +----------------+     +---------------+
>        |                                      |
>  mingw32-filesystem                    mingw64-filesystem
>        |                                      |
>        +----------------+     +---------------+
>                         |     |
>                     mingw-filesystem
> 
> The mingw-filesystem-scripts package contains wrapper scripts and RPM
> macros which are generic for both the mingw32 and mingw64 targets. For
> these wrapper scripts and RPM macros it doesn't matter whether
> mingw32-filesystem or mingw64-filesystem is installed.
> 
> The mingw-filesystem package used to be an empty package which just
> contains dependencies on both mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem.
> If one wants to install this package, both the mingw32 and the mingw64
> pieces will be pulled in. I've just applied a change so that all RPM
> macros which depend on both mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem
> will be bundled with this package (this wasn't the case before).

i'm still not understand.
suppose that there is no mingw-filesystem-scripts so everything which is
now in mingw-filesystem-scripts moved to mingw-filesystem and
mingw-filesystem do NOT require mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem.
and suppose i only need the mingw32 packages.
than i've to install all mingw32 pacakges + mingw32-filesystem +
mingw-filesystem. where is the dependency bloat?
(while in the current situation i've to install all mingw32 pacakges +
mingw32-filesystem + mingw-filesystem-scripts. same number of packages
similar dependencies and imho the former is easier and cleaner.

anyway i already write the spec generator script, but i've got way too
much work plus my son this week and next week. so probably in the end of
next week i'll send the first version.

regards.

-- 
  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"