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).

:)