Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Dec 17 09:04:37 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 21:49 -0500, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 21:44, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> > Only fork SPEC files when the complexity of maintaining them becomes 
> > harder than the complexity of keeping things synchronised.
> > 
> > My estimate is that for 70% of the cases 1 SPEC file can rule them all.
> 
> That would be _extremely_ cool.
The emphasize is misplaced _would_ would have been correct. 

Being involved into packaging cross-distribution rpms for many years,
experience tells me, you can achieve a 90-percent solution this way
easily, however the rest is almost impossible to resolve.

Ralf
 




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