Re: KDE Sub-Packaging Approach on Fedora

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 20/06/06, Hugo Cisneiros 
> <hugo devin com br> wrote:
>
> > For example: if you install kdegames with yum, it adds all the 
> > sub-packages as
> > dependencies. But if you later uninstall kdegames-foo, it wil only 
> > uninstall
> > kdegames-foo and the kdegames meta-package. All other subpackages will 
> > remain
> > untouched.
>
>
> OK - I'd missed that subtelty, sorry. I suppose that's the best (most
> consistent) situation that can be hoped for.

Or, follow what koffice in Extras did, and use a meta-package named 
koffice-suite.  A nice advantage of this approach is that since the old 
name is no longer being used, we have the opportunity to drop all those 
darn Epoch's from kde packaging.

-- Rex