FS#65463 - [cheese] Split package to prevent an unwanted dependency
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Opened by Cedric Bellegarde (gnumdk) - Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 09:03 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 11:18 GMT
Opened by Cedric Bellegarde (gnumdk) - Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 09:03 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 11:18 GMT
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Description:
Gnome Control Center depends on libcheese to get user avatar from a webcam. On ArchLinux, gnome-control-center depends on cheese package. Others distributions like Fedora split the package into cheese and libcheese. Don't know if it's acceptable for ArchLinux Packaging Policy but should be great to prevent cheese app from being mandatory. |
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Comment by freswa (frederik) -
Wednesday, 12 February 2020, 11:18 GMT
We don't split binaries from libraries, except there is a proper
amount of diskspace to be safed by splitting the package and then
have different dependencies on the resulting packages.