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List:       fedora-marketing-list
Subject:    Re: counting packages (was Re: Fedora Package Status of Aug 12,
From:       Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip () kanarip ! com>
Date:       2008-08-20 20:56:12
Message-ID: 48AC84EC.2090803 () kanarip ! com
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Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 2008/8/19 Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade@redhat.com>:
>>> Owners stats:
>>>  - 6517 packages
>>>  - 10799 binary rpms in devel
>> Darn, I was afraid of that.  We are all perfectly aware that one package
>> (tarball + spec file) can yield more than one binary rpm.
> 
> Would it be better to consistently start using a term like component
> or module to indicate the tarball+spec+patchset entity...especially
> since people are vectoring towards making it possible to work with
> explode sources in our buildsystem without generating an srpm
> 'package' at all.
> 
> Yes those people may or may not be smoking crack.. but they appear to
> be pretty serious about making it possible to work with some sort of
> exploded tree as an option to srpms for some of the components we
> maintain...can't really call an exploded tree a package.
> 

Or, instead of having a subtle name change for each subtle stage change 
in turning foo into baz via bar, we could just stick with 'package' and 
suggest that a 'package' is something you can yum install or 
yumdownloader --source.

-Jeroen

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