Noarch subpackage problem

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:53 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Anytime you add things that the packager has to understand and has to do
> you add a step where things can be forgotten or misapplied.  Right now,
> we have the ability to start with a small set of files that are
> allowable in noarch subpackages and add more as we figure out heuristics
> to allow things that we are pretty certain are correct.  (%doc, *.py,
> etc).  Once this is out there for a while, the only thing we can do is
> impose additional burden on reviewers and packagers as it's much harder
> to take back a feature than it is to parcel it out a little at a time.


Perhaps these thoughts should have been brought up when this feature hit
RPM and when it was talked about MONTHS ago, rather than waiting until
after we've done all the work to make it live and in use.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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