On 9/23/07, Ricardo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
AHHH! Stop! Please, please, please read the starting email of the thread before you keep filling up my email inbox with this spam. No one anywhere said we were moving to -dev packages. Please read the original posts first before you reply to what was supposed to be a completely different thread. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-September/015518.html -Dan _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
