Lance Albertson wrote: >Mike Frysinger wrote: > > >>On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote: >> >> >> >>>Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? >>> >>> >>general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...) >> >> > >bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages? (I'm >just curious) Seems a bit odd that we can't have a library only, client >only, etc package like the other distros. Of course, I understand that >we could use useflags for that, but is that really the best solution for > this particular issue? > >Oh well, I'm just a sysadmin, not a coder so I'll got back to my cave. ;) > > > vimdiff bind-tools/bind-tools-9.2.5.ebuild bind/bind-9.2.5-r5.ebuild In the eventuality of mysql being splitted the landscape is totally different. The code to duplicate is a 40% of the ebuild speaking of volume, in maintenance the percentage is bigger.
I'm a (little) sysadmin too, redundancy is good speaking of servers but maintain a cluster or simply to synced servers is more difficult (and error prone) that maintain only one, right ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
