On 6/13/06, Brian Vincent brian.vincent@gmail.com wrote:
- Put wine and wine-tools together. Call it 'wine'
Or make wine require wine-tools. There's nothing wrong with splitting up packages, but any recommended combinations should be linked by requires until rpm/yum starts supporting tags like 'Enhances' and 'Suggests'.
- Combine wine-debuginfo with wine-devel and call it wine-devel.
They're both necessary for development, right?
Debuginfo is built automatically by rpmbuild and can't joined to the devel package. The debuginfo package is only needed for debugging, whereas (I think) the -devel package is used for things like making winelib apps. All packages in Fedora are like that, and developers are used to that now.
I think that most users would just install 'wine' and use it. I don't think it's common for people to get confused over which of all the packages they should install. Unless they know already that they need something non-standard, anything not required by the base package is probably something they won't need.
n0dalus.