[Mageia-dev] couchdb packaging

Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net
Sun Nov 25 18:15:18 CET 2012


On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 16:06 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Couchdb seems to be split into couchdb and couchdb-bin.
> 
> This split seems daft to me. couchdb requires couchdb-bin and the only
> stuff in the couchdb package is config files...
> 
> Why is there this complicated split?

Is it so that couchdb can be noarch and shared across different
architectures? With a small package, it might be overkill.


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