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--- Comment #36 from Alec Leamas leamas.alec@gmail.com 2011-04-20 06:26:49 EDT --- With all issues in comment #31 resolved, we are approaching another other big issue: how to handle the server addons: their deps and in some cases also licenses.
To decouple the thunderbird addon license, one obvious option is to package it in in a sub-package. This seems reasonable from many aspects for me.
However, we also have all other addons and their deps. I know from experience that using certain addons will break due to missing deps. So, we need to somehow fix this. One could of course try to add all deps for all addons, but this would pull in just to much for simple installations(?)
OTOH, creating a sub-package for each addon (150+) seems just not feasible. Or is it? Seems that tryton (an OpenERP fork) is packaged this way in rawhide, 60+ packages.
Would it be possible to somehow group the addons based on functionality, deps etc., into a more manageable set of sub-packages?
Basically, I have no idea of the best way to handle this...