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Re: Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages


Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wanting to split up the lib{xslt,xml2} into
seperate -doc, -devel, -python,
> etc, packages. I figure I should wait until the next release, but just
wanted to
> hear is there's any thoughts pro or against this. This saves bandwidth for
the
> user that only needs lib{xslt,xml2} (the runtime(s)) and means there is no
> change required to the setup.hint files on sources.redhat.com to this to
happen.
>
> My inted layout is
>
>   libxml2         the runtime library
>   libxml2-doc     manuals, docs, etc
>   libxml2-devel   headers and static libs
>   libxml2-python  python bindings
>   libxml2-perl    perl modules (XML::)
>
>   libxslt         ...
>   libxslt-doc     ...
>   libxslt-devel   ...
>   libxslt-python  ...

That could be very useful from those of us still stuck on modems.

When you do, you could move /usr/share/doc/* to /usr/doc/* to conform with
most other cygwin packages.


Max.


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