[pacman-dev] pacman packaging

[Jason Chu]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 21:58:46 -0500
"Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was just another thought of mine. Pacman is currently distributed
> as one package on Archlinux (and I would assume on any distribution
> that is using it). I was thinking it should maybe be two packages,
> pacman and pacman-utils, or something similar. The two things can be
> split fairly cleanly- the first is used for installing packages and
> general maintenence, while the other is used for building packages,
> looking at the ABS tree, building a custom repo, etc. This also seems
> more important with a few other scripts being added recently
> (re-pacman, repo-add)
> 
> pacman:
> pacman (and conf/man files), pacman.static, vercmp, rankmirrors,
> pacman-optimize
> 
> pacman-utils:
> abs (and conf files), makepkg (and conf file), makeworld (TODO still
> wondering if this is used), gensync, resync, repo-add (TODO should
> this be renamed to addsync?), re-pacman
> 
> In addition, pacman-utils could then pull in scripts such as srcpac
> and namcap that are likely installed by most developers anyway.
> 
> This isn't so much development related, but I thought this was the
> best list to bring this up.
> 
> -Dan

Not to be contradictory, but what does this gain us?  It seperates
things, sure, but so what?  What problem are we solving by splitting
things up?

Jason
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