mingw-filesystem-scripts

[Farkas Levente]

On 07/06/2011 01:57 PM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Farkas Levente schreef op za 02-07-2011 om 18:21 [+0200]:
>> On 07/01/2011 06:26 PM, Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
>>> Farkas Levente schreef op di 28-06-2011 om 10:56 [+0200]:
>>>> hi,
>>>> why there is a mingw-filesystem-scripts package and not move everything
>>>> into mingw-filesystem?
>>>> i don't see any rational reason for this.
>>>
>>> Hi Levente,
>>>
>>> The most important reason of the existence of this package is to avoid
>>> dependency bloat. Here's the dependency tree :
>>>
>>>                  mingw-filesystem-scripts
>>>                         |     |
>>>        +----------------+     +---------------+
>>>        |                                      |
>>>  mingw32-filesystem                    mingw64-filesystem
>>>        |                                      |
>>>        +----------------+     +---------------+
>>>                         |     |
>>>                     mingw-filesystem
>>>
>>> The mingw-filesystem-scripts package contains wrapper scripts and RPM
>>> macros which are generic for both the mingw32 and mingw64 targets. For
>>> these wrapper scripts and RPM macros it doesn't matter whether
>>> mingw32-filesystem or mingw64-filesystem is installed.
>>>
>>> The mingw-filesystem package used to be an empty package which just
>>> contains dependencies on both mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem.
>>> If one wants to install this package, both the mingw32 and the mingw64
>>> pieces will be pulled in. I've just applied a change so that all RPM
>>> macros which depend on both mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem
>>> will be bundled with this package (this wasn't the case before).
>>
>> i'm still not understand.
>> suppose that there is no mingw-filesystem-scripts so everything which is
>> now in mingw-filesystem-scripts moved to mingw-filesystem and
>> mingw-filesystem do NOT require mingw32-filesystem and mingw64-filesystem.
>> and suppose i only need the mingw32 packages.
>> than i've to install all mingw32 pacakges + mingw32-filesystem +
>> mingw-filesystem. where is the dependency bloat?
>> (while in the current situation i've to install all mingw32 pacakges +
>> mingw32-filesystem + mingw-filesystem-scripts. same number of packages
>> similar dependencies and imho the former is easier and cleaner.
>>
>> anyway i already write the spec generator script, but i've got way too
>> much work plus my son this week and next week. so probably in the end of
>> next week i'll send the first version.
>>
>> regards.
> 
> Hi Levente,
> 
> After thinking some more about this I decided to drop the
> mingw-filesystem package and rename the -scripts package to -base. So
> now we've got the mingw-filesystem SRPM which produces 3 binary RPMs:
> mingw32-filesystem, mingw64-filesystem and mingw-filesystem-base.

but why mingw-filesystem-base better then mingw-filesystem???
that was my original question too.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"