comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[Rahul Sundaram]

Florian Festi wrote:
> 
> Doing things per packages gets too expensive:
> Even a small amount of work or possibility of error gets expensive and
> annoying if it has to be done in a lot of packages. The example we are
> looking at right now are scripts that are handling special types of files
> like: ldconfig, install-info, gtk-update-icon-cache, ... We hope to come up
> with a solution soon.
> Another idea under that topic is the (semi) automatic creation of sub
> packages. This could be used to address several other problems like 
> multilib
> or language files. But right now it is only a vague idea...

Have you looked at what Conary does in this space to solve these issues 
in particular? It seems worth looking into.

Rahul