[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Automatic (sub)package generators (#329)

[Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)]

> 1. you have upstreams from hell like TeXLive that bundle many many unrelated parts of the same kind.
So you need some way to tell rpm "autocreate subpackages but split them around those fileset lines"

Sure. And even in Solus' packaging mechanism, the user can override automatic pattern matching to do their own patterns.

> 2. you still need to declare package summary and description somewhere (not all descriptions can be autocomputed)

Absolutely, and they can be manually specified as needed. That being said, in a large number of cases, it isn't necessary to do so.

Think for example how we package Python modules in Fedora. The summary and description is basically repeated with an additional statement on which version of Python it targets based on the flavor.

In my view, implementing this feature would make things like proper multilibbing automatic, as well as doing libs/devel splits automatically, Python package flavor splits, Ruby flavor splits, and so on.

Yes, there are exceptions: TeXLive and the Linux kernel are probably not going to benefit much from this, for example. But this is a _huge_ improvement for the overwhelming majority of cases.

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