Re: autocon and sub-packages

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 09/04/2015 02:26 PM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Eric Blake (2015/09/04 06:07 -0600):
> > On 09/03/2015 08:09 AM, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am one of the maintainers of Coccinelle[1], a tool written in the
> > > Objective Caml[2] language.
> > >
> > > The tool is distributed with the libraries it depends on (they are
> > > provided as bundles).

> Camllanguage and its libraries are not as widespread as gettext and
> libtool. So the idea of the bundles is tomake life of end-users simpler,
> but of course it also makes thelifeofdevelopers and maintainers a bit
> harder.

Well, what I can tell you with my Fedora on is that in Fedora we 
discourage bundling, because it in a nutshell raises a lot problems in 
maintenance, both for system-integrators (read: distros) and upstreams.

Ralf