first reviews for "dual packages"

[Paul Howarth]

On 16/03/10 16:33, Iain Arnell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Marcela Maslanova<mmaslano at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> ----- "Iain Arnell"<iarnell at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I
>>> guess perl.spec needs a little more work up front to split as much as
>>> possible into separate sub-packages.
>>
>> Ok, but in this case we need for almost every provides a sub-package.
>> Wouldn't be sufficient to check perl.spec and create sub-package after
>> the separated module will be needed?
>
> That would also work, of course. But should be mentioned in the guidelines too.

Wouldn't this approach mean that the main perl package needed to be 
updated whenever a new updated module was needed, which was one of the 
things this scheme was trying to avoid?

Paul.