Re: question on conditional'd spec files

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:31:29PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2001 10:19 pm, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 07:04, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > > Now, currently, we have one large spec file which generates close to 40
> > > RPM's.  As you can imagine, the build takes quite some time, and it is
> 
> > Holy smokes!  40 rpms?!?!  And I gave the nautilus folks grief for their
> > 7...  Does this all come out of the same source tree/tarball?  Has
> 
> The PM3 RPMset numbers over 360 RPM's.  PM3 == Portable Modula 3.

Most of the 360 packages are an explicit enumeration of almost all known
programs written in Modula 3. <shrug>

Meanwhile I've seen a package that built >800 packages from a single
rpm, taking 800+ Mb to build, and 30 minutes to uninstall, breaking
rpm in the process.

You can package anyway you wish, but breaking packages up into small
pieces is far easier to maintain than attempting to build the Tower
of Babel. The goal of software development is working and maintainable bits,
not packaging convenience.

73 de Jeff

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