Re: [Tracker] Packages explanation

[Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com>]

Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> 2007/1/29, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com>:
>> Deji Akingunola ha scritto:
>> > On 1/29/07, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com> wrote:
>> >> Deji Akingunola ha scritto:
>> >> > On 1/29/07, Michele Mattioni <mattions gmail com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I hope the same type of packaging is used also on Fedora,
>> >> >
>> >> > No, Fedora only have tracker and tracker-devel. The thing that
>> might
>> >> > be sensible to do, is to split out a tracker-search-tool
>> sub-package.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Deji
>> >> So
>> >> tracker --> everything daemon related
>> >> tracker-devel --> the devel libraries
>> >>
>> >> Desktop related
>> >>
>> >> tracker-search-tool --> GUI
>> >> libdeskbar-tracker --> deskbar integration
>> >>
>> >> This lay-out would be accepted from both debian/ubuntu and fedora ?
>> >>
>> > Yes, I think so. Except, why not merge the deskbar integration into
>> > the GUI? The deskbar related stuff is just one (1) file, which seems
>> > to be too much fragmentation to have it in a separate sub-package.
>> > Moreover, the deskbar-applet is a GNOME app and already have GNOME
>> > libs dependencies.
>> >
>> > Deji
>> >
>> I agree.
>> Let's see what debian/ubuntu developer think about this :P
>>
>
> I, as maintainer of the Debian packages, want to keep the
> deskbar-applet package separate. There are several reasons for this,
> the most important one is, that I don't want to force people to
> install the complete python/python-gtk  stack (which is necessary for
> deskbar-applet), if people only want to run tracker-search-tool.
>
> The fedora people are of course free to choose their package layout as
> they want. I don't think we have to match them. Each distro should
> ship it as it fits best to their policies and procedures.
>
As realized now this was quite useless from the beginning :)
Forget about this discussion.

We are going to point out on the website that tracker daemon is Desktop
Agnostic, and teh user has not to install any gnome-dependencies without
going stacked on the specific way of packaging tracker for each distro
(that is also quite useless and time consuming).

:)