Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

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|         Flattened              |            Deep                |
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
>  * will it help in shipping a single rpm for multiple platforms;
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
|         NO. Binary RPMs are mono archicture (v.3.x) NO.         |
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
>  * will it make easier to create different rpms for different platforms 
>    on the same machine;
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|  ?  (probably no difference)   |  ?   (probably no difference)  |
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>  * will it help users in keeping more than one backend;
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
|              NO                |            YES                 |
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
>  * will it make possible to create a single rpm for multiple backends;
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
|         NO. Binary RPMs are mono archicture (v.3.x) NO.         |
| Well, we could make noarch binary RPM containing several        |
| severay GNUstep architectures. Then:                            |
|              NO                |             YES                |
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
>  * will it make easier to create different rpms for different backends;
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
|              NO ?              |             YES ?              |
+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+




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