Packaging guidelines for packaging vala bindings

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 17 22:54:23 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:05:36PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Once that is done, then just adding the vala bindings to the
> devel-package likely takes less disk space for those who
> do install them, then the meta data needed for a separate subpackage,
> and that metadata needs to be downloaded and *stored* by all users,
> not just those installing the -devel package.

You've measured this, right?  I'd like to see hard figures
before we dismiss the idea of packaging this correctly.

Rich.

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