Hi Steve,
On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, sjones wrote:
> On 2016-10-21 17:28, Marcus Ebert wrote:
>
>> Keeping this in mind, I think one could put the information about all
>> approved VOs in a single rpm. That way at least this part of the
>> information needed to support a VO would be on all sites already.
>> In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt a site which doesn't fully support a
>> specific the VO to have the text files from the rpm on disk.
>
> The effect of releasing a metapackage that calls for all the individual RPMs
> (as proposed by David) amounts to much the same thing, I think.
>
> I'll follow this up soon and release a metapackage - my mind is no longer in
> the 'blown' state, and I can see certain advantages to this, mostly related
> to simplicity. Es ist immer noch eine Schrotflinte-Lösung, aber manchmal ist
> das das Beste.
>
Yes, David's proposal of a metapackage is the cleaner and better solution
of it, although a bit more work and still allows sites to have only part
of the supported VOs information installed. But yes, it's the better
Schrotflinten-Lösung.
Cheers,
Marcus
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