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Re: Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:37:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.55.0306272016110.3272@ellixia>
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.