Create Subpackages

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 23:46 -0200, Rodrigo Faria Tavares wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> About Subpackages in Maximum RPM.
> 
> They are often used ?

No.  Sometimes they're used to create dependencies (e.g. the "xxx-libs"
RPM that makes up a whole package).  For example, the "e2fsprogs"
package is made up of:

	e2fsprogs-devel-(version)
	e2fsprogs-libs-(version)
	e2fsprogs-(version)

Subpackages may be used to create the "e2fsprogs-libs" and/or
"e2fsprogs-devel" RPMs.  More commonly, those are created by a separate
build process.  Your choice.

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