[Kolab-devel] Do we need all these perl modules?

[Richard Bos]

Op maandag 22 maart 2010 15:58:06 schreef Gunnar Wrobel:
>   Quoting Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>:
> > "Christoph Wickert" <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> I've noticed that the Kolab perl-* packages contain a lot of perl
> >> modules each, some of them up to 70 modules. Are all these modules
> >> really needed or did soneone just take the open-pkg packages because
> >> they were already available?
> >
> > As a side-note question; are Christoph and I going to have to make  
> > available cross-distro all the packages included in the OpenPKG  
> > version of Kolab packages, and if so, is that:
> >
> > - because of OpenPKG, or
> > - because they are all dependencies of Kolab?
> >
> > For more details on the background of this question, please see  
> > http://wiki.kolab.org/index.php/User:Kanarip/Package_Dependencies
> 
> Your goal is to get the Kolab server running on Fedora, right? I don't  
> see any reason why you would need to look at any packages far down in  
> the dependency hierarchy when transferring from OpenPKG to Fedora.  
> Each distro has it's own packaging concepts and not all of them match.  
> So some packages will be present in some distros and will not make  
> much sense in others.
> 
> In order to get a native install of the Kolab server you only need to  
> identify the top level components that make a kolab server a kolab  
> server and ensure that you get the dependencies of these components  
> right.

Let's not forget to get the dist_conf file correct.  That's the spil to get 
packages natively running on a distribution.


-- 
Richard