Splitting up lib{xslt,xml2} packages

[Elfyn McBratney]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, me being one of them. :-)

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

I've done that. I'm going to do this tomorrow if no one disagrees, as all it
takes is uploading new packages.

Elfyn
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