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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: Fwd: [Cooker] Mandriva kmail sucks (buggy mandriva patch)
From:       Laurent Montel <lmontel () mandriva ! com>
Date:       2006-05-10 15:56:38
Message-ID: 200605101756.39197.lmontel () mandriva ! com
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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.

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