[oe] RFC: More granular libraries packaging

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:01 +0200, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> One of our strong points is granular packaging. We have extra packages for 
> locales, documentation, development stuff etc. But we can improve it a bit 
> more.
> 
> Many packages has multiple libraries in package. Not everytime it is 
> useful - for example libusb had dependency on libstdc++ just because it 
> had libusbpp in same package as libusb.
> 
> My proposition is - let split each library to separate package. This will 
> enlarge feeds (so ipkg will get hurt more ;( but in some situations can 
> give us smaller rootfs.

In some specific cases, splitting packaging per lib makes a lot of
sense. I'd certainly agree in the case of libusb. I'm not sure splitting
all libs is a good idea though as most libs packages are currently
interdependent and there is nothing to be gained by splitting.

I'm therefore thinking of an opt in class/PACKAGEFUNC to handle this
only in the cases we identify as needing it but others seem to have a
different opinion :)

Richard