On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Jelle van der Waa <je...@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> > On 12/05/10 at 05:38pm, Kaiting Chen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jelle van der Waa <je...@vdwaa.nl> > wrote: > > > > > Hello all. > > > I would love to see > > > improvements like more splitting of packages which has been done with > > > packages like compiz. > > > > > > Hi, can I ask what you mean by the splitting of packages? The last thing > I > > want to see is the debianization of our distribution, where one package > is > > needlessly split into a hundred little ones. --Kaiting. > > > > -- > > Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/ > > Well for example handbrake could be split to handbrake-gtk, > handbrake-qt, etc. And then only if the app supports it with configure > flags. And my other argument for more splitting is purely for creating a > -data package if the app is big and if the -data pkg has an arch=('any') > so you have a smaller repo ;) > > btw I don't know how crazy debian is with splitting packages ;) > I like the idea of splitting packages between server and client if there is a significant difference in dependencies between the server and the client. However I really don't like the idea of splitting out -data packages. This is basically what Debian does. I remember they would take a single package and split it to *-bin, *-libs, *-dev, *-src, *-otherstuff, etc. It's a nightmare. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/