[Bug 280191] fencing agents should be broken out into sub-packages

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=280191

--- Comment #10 from Fabio Massimo Di Nitto  2010-12-21 11:35:30 EST ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> Hi,
>
> what about introducing meta-package which depends on all fence-agents
> subpackages and is installed by default? By groups mechanism f.e.
> Also every fence-agent subpackage could introduce virtual "feature", on which
> cman could depend.
>
> I mean:
> fence-agents (meta)
> Require: fence-agent-1 fence-agent-2 fence-agent-3 ...

At the stage in which fence agents are now developed upstream, this is an
overkill and useless process. It could have been (maybe) a gain few years back
when this bug was initially discussed, but with today's code it is a pointless
and very expensive operation.