[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RPM] 0.90pre7 new package layout proposal

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Sep 8 18:08:24 CEST 2002


Alex Beregszaszi writes:
 > >  > > > mplayer-common package containing config files and documentation
 > >  > > > mplayer package containing the regular (non-GUI) version (mplayer)
 > >  > > > mplayer-gui package containing the GUI version (gmplayer)
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > i like this idea
 > >  > we should follow this ideia by debian packages too! (and we should propogate
 > >  > this layout by the comming packagers too!)
 > > 
 > > I don't know.  Since the Debian package somehow comes included, there
 > > is no bandwidth saving is splitting it up.
 > The included debian package is for peoples which wants to create his own packages.
 > 
 > We should include -deb- or smthing in distributed .deb packages.
 > (Only if they've some patches included, as Dominik's RPM packages)

Ok, now I see what you mean..  You want all package makers to mark
their packages as modified in the version string.  Agreed.

Diego



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