[Mono-list] Mono Packages split.

Todd Berman tberman@off.net
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:16:50 -0400


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 20:36 -0400, Duncan Mak wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 19:45, Todd Berman wrote:
> > 
> > Why isnt is possible to create a 'mono' and 'mono-devel' package that is
> > basically a stub that deps on what would go in those. That way you get
> > the best of both worlds.
> > 
> 
> We already have something similar, we have mono-complete and
> mono-complete-devel. The problem is that, removing mono-complete does
> not remove the packages that it depends on, as it is simply an empty
> (meta) package.

I am totally clueless about the rpm format, but you cant somehow specify
some uninstall script/hook/whatever that uninstalls all the packages
when the -complete or -complete-devel is removed?

--Todd