On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:21, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > But splitting a package into aaa-bin, aaa-dev, aaa-data, aaa-doc and > aaa-lib is bad. There's a reason "Arch Linux is a lightweight and > flexible linux distribution that tries to Keep It Simple." and we should > take pride in that. Yes, some package such as KDE should be split up, > but that should ONLY be done upstream. We should package 'KDE' and not > 'ArchKDE'. There's also a well maintained KDEmod. > But otherwise, please don't make it a habit of splitting up packages > unless there is a major reason. > What next, port debconf to pacman?
I agree: splitting packages (except those cases in which it's absolutely necessary) is evil. Debian and Ubuntu make my skin crawl because of those silly -dev packages. -- Ricardo Martins ><>< scarybox.net ><>< b.scarybox.net GPG key: 0x1308F1B4 http://scarybox.net/zomg/ricardo.asc
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