<p>Today in RPM, we have dependency generators that allow us to automatically match dependencies based on the content of the install tree. However, it's still a lot of work for people to split out things into subpackages so that the dependencies are matched up with the components they actually belong to.</p>
<p>It'd be awesome if we had a system for package generators similar to the dependency generator system.</p>
<p>As a conceptual inspiration, Solus has an interesting pattern-matching mechanism in their <a href="https://github.com/solus-project/ypkg">ypkg system</a>, which is very similar to a YAML-based RPM spec (and somewhat inspired by rpm spec in some ways), but offers some interesting advantages that drastically simplify the effort to package software.</p>
<p>We already have a pattern matching mechanism for dependency generation with the fileattr system, and we sort of have a automatic package generation mechanism for the debuginfo subpackage stuff. I imagine these two mechanisms can be extended to add the ability to set up rules for generating subpackages arbitrarily for various things (Perl & Python binding packages, library packages, devel packages, etc.).</p>

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