[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #802: Status on Arch Linux | Splitting into Library and Application

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#802: Status on Arch Linux | Splitting into Library and Application
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  Reporter:  Xavion          |       Owner:  lennart     
      Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  closed      
 Milestone:                  |   Component:  build-system
Resolution:  distrospecific  |    Keywords:              
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Comment(by coling):

 Lennart has already said that if the patch is clean he will likely apply
 it.

 That said, as a packager myself, I find it absolutely astounding that the
 Arch build system requires that you build and install a given source
 multiple times in order to package it. Every other distro I know of splits
 the PA package into separate binary packages, but they only need to build
 it once and the definition of which files go to which binary package is
 left up to the packager to specify, not the upstream project.

 To me, this requirement by the Arch build system is in no way indicative
 of a "relatively advanced" package management system - it's totally
 backwards :s A source tarball should be built once, and once only when
 creating binary packages.

 If you do just built it once then run the "make install-xxx" multiple
 times with different values of xxx, then this is slightly more sensible
 but pushing your Arch specific policy into upstream packages seems rather
 narrow minded anyway. I know, for example, that the library packaging
 policy is different in Mandriva than it is in RedHat and I know that
 Ubuntu do things differently still.

 This kind of split should definitely be left to the packaging system IMO.

 That's my €0.02

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