TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Jun 4 14:19:15 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 15:21 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > I'm having a hard time coming up with a response other than "that's why
> > we ship source RPMs; these don't need to be packaged." Am I missing
> > something?
> 
> Ok, I'm fine with that. Let's just not package it but leave the tarballs
> listed as sources in spec. We are at about 2/3 of subpackage count
> now.

This is another reason why they should be individual SRPMS.  The srpm
then only has the source to the little piece you care about, instead of
needing to pull down one monolithic giant srpm to get the source to a
little chunk of code.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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