Splitting the ncurses RPM

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 14:24:57 EDT 2007


Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) said: 
> Ok. Maybe I'd use a bit different naming instead:
> 
> ncurses-bin: bin/*
> ncurses-base: lib*.so.* /etc/terminfo /lib/terminfo, some of /usr/share/terminfo
> ncurses-terminfo: rest of /usr/share/terminfo
> ncurses: requires: -bin -base -terminfo
> 
> How does this sound?

For sanity's sake on upgrades, leaving the libraries in the same
package name (multilib) would be best.

Bill



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