[HEADSUP] Staging, packaging and more

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 3 20:21:40 UTC 2013


On 10/03/13 07:17, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 03/10/2013 11:48 Baptiste Daroussin said the following:
>> This also allows lots of new features to come:
>> - Allow to create sub-packages
>> - Allow to create debuginfo packages.
> I'd like to mention a few other possibilities along the same lines:
> - doc packages
> - examples packages
> - "devel" packages (headers, tools and other files required for compiling
> dependent software, but not generally needed for an end user)

Please no devel packages. These things are the bane of my existence on 
Linux systems.
-Nathan


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