Guidelines for creating subpackages?
I have recently submitted a bug report for the "vtk" package, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388211
because vtk-devel depends on a fair number of packages including "vtk-qt" which
in turn pulls in "qt" and analog dependencies which is rather annoying. To my
surprise, the bug got closed immediately as "NOTABUG".
The "plplot" package however, shows a fine granularity which allows to avoid the
unnecessary installation of undesired libraries/toolkits:
plplot, plplot-devel, plplot-gnome, plplot-gnome-devel, plplot-java,
plplot-java-devel, plplot-libs, plplot-octave, plplot-perl,
plplot-tk, plplot-tk-devel, plplot-wxGTK, plplot-wxGTK-devel.
Shouldn't there be a standard policy how to proceed in such cases? The procedure
adopted in the "plplot" case obviously appears more appealing to me ..
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