Re: [Tracker] Packages explanation

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/1/29, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com>:
> Deji Akingunola ha scritto:
> > On 1/29/07, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com> wrote:
> >> Deji Akingunola ha scritto:
> >> > On 1/29/07, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I hope the same type of packaging is used also on Fedora,
> >> >
> >> > No, Fedora only have tracker and tracker-devel. The thing that might
> >> > be sensible to do, is to split out a tracker-search-tool sub-package.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Deji
> >> So
> >> tracker --> everything daemon related
> >> tracker-devel --> the devel libraries
> >>
> >> Desktop related
> >>
> >> tracker-search-tool --> GUI
> >> libdeskbar-tracker --> deskbar integration
> >>
> >> This lay-out would be accepted from both debian/ubuntu and fedora ?
> >>
> > Yes, I think so. Except, why not merge the deskbar integration into
> > the GUI? The deskbar related stuff is just one (1) file, which seems
> > to be too much fragmentation to have it in a separate sub-package.
> > Moreover, the deskbar-applet is a GNOME app and already have GNOME
> > libs dependencies.
> >
> > Deji
> >
> I agree.
> Let's see what debian/ubuntu developer think about this :P

I, as maintainer of the Debian packages, want to keep the
deskbar-applet package separate. There are several reasons for this,
the most important one is, that I don't want to force people to
install the complete python/python-gtk  stack (which is necessary for
deskbar-applet), if people only want to run tracker-search-tool.

The fedora people are of course free to choose their package layout as
they want. I don't think we have to match them. Each distro should
ship it as it fits best to their policies and procedures.

Cheers,
Michael