"Please split doc into foo-doc subpackage" -> why?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Mar 30 18:42:52 UTC 2009


Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > I just recieved one of these bugs (#492446), and I'm not sure
> > why we'd do this for any package.
> 
> Because the documentation can be noarch. We have support for noarch
> subpackages in F10 and later now.

Sure, but either:

- you have the main package reqire the doc package (in which case, whoop
  de do, a split out 400k package)
- you don't, in which case you break the user experience

Bill




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