2008/4/21, Arjen de Korte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnaud Quette wrote: > > > > > > No, and that's because I doubt that openSUSE will follow this approach. > > > Historically, there hasn't been too much interest in splitting packages, > > > since SuSE (now openSUSE) attempts to create a working configuration out > of > > > the box. Therefor, it made little sense to split these packages up as > they > > > all needed to be installed anyway. > > > > > > > > that's indeed what I saw. Even installing the CGI in the bare install! > > > > > Yes. Although the disadvantages of following this approach are clear > (dependencies for stuff that isn't actually used), I don't think this is too > bad. Most desktop systems will have many of these things installed already > (possibly with the exception of the net-snmp library), so the only thing > you're gaining is maybe a few MB of hard-disk space, which is too cheap to > really worry about. If you're looking at configuring a tightly controlled > server where you don't want anything installed that isn't actually needed, > you won't be installing openSUSE anyway (which is mainly aimed at the > desktop).
well, that's the biggest problematic of packaging. none of the solutions are perfect, and both have big pros and cons. there are still many rooms for improvement there... Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser