As I understand, noone is going to split all arch packages. But some packages already splitted.
See, for example - samba - gcc - *-info and some *-doc packages in community etc... >> Just one users comment after having read through this thread -> >> Split packages made Mandrake/Mandriva a big mess. In the early days of >> Arch the philosophy was that arch was not for everyone AND that things >> should be as "KISS" as possible. >> Debian is a big mess because of their *needlessly* >> complicated/non-intuitive methods of packaging. >> I could go on and on with other examples as the list is quite long of >> distros that started out great and became tiresome to package for or to >> use. >> I *hope* that I will not have to go looking for another distro because >> Arch has morphed into one of the ones I left because it became too >> difficult and time consuming to work with. (I even left the distro that I >> was a principle at for these very same reasons, so I am sensitive to when >> distros have the potential for loosing sight of their goals and >> principles.) >> SO...I am asking that you guys think THREE times about any changes you >> make that could make Arch go too far from the KISS principle it started >> with and remember that Arch never had the goal of being the distro for >> everyone's needs. >> This IS just my opinion and YMMV of course. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
