From mandrake-cooker Wed May 10 15:56:38 2006 From: Laurent Montel Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:56:38 +0000 To: mandrake-cooker Subject: Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch) Message-Id: <200605101756.39197.lmontel () mandriva ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=114727657511788 On Wednesday 10 May 2006 17:33, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le Mercredi 10 Mai 2006 17:11, Laurent Montel a écrit : > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:24, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > > Still no reply, retrying... > > > > Read spec file before to write email > > patch10 is never apply into kdepim. > > Regards. > > Then why do you keep it in the source rpm ? > > rpmlint has a warning to avoid this, as keeping not applied patchs : > - is a waste of disk space and bandwidth, of cpu and upload processing time 1772 Dec 13 17:00 kdepim-3.2-move-mail.patch 1.7ko ! for example your split of avahi to avahi-qt4 which is not used size is: 53935 May 6 15:21 /RPMS/libavahi-qt4_1-devel-0.6.10-1mdk.i586.rpm 10737 May 6 15:21 /RPMS/libavahi-qt4_1-0.6.10-1mdk.i586.rpm > - lead to complexity and unreadability in spec files, and so render them > less maintenable > - lead to this kind of problem when trying to understand what is going on > and when people try to help. It's easy: read %patch.... you know which patchs is apply.