Re: Debian packaging

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:10:16PM +0200, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: [...]
> The reason that the scripts try to compile as much stuff as possible, is
> due to the way ROOT is build and distributed. After all, one can always
> de-select packages at install time.
>
> I'd prefer is ROOT was distributed in a slightly different way, so that
> there'd be one core ROOT (consisting of what is essential to ROOT only),
> and a number of plug-in packages. So one would have a CVS repository
> like
>
> cvs_at_root.cern.ch:/user/cvs -+- root # The core
> +- root-plugins
> | +- gl
> | +- mysql
> | +- sapdb
> | +- globus
> ...
> +- root-contrib
> +- xrootd
> ...

Is this structure documented somewhere? This will be useful for me in creating a corresponding set of RPM packages, i.e. root
root-gl
root-mysql
...
root-xrootd
etc.

Regards,

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