On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com>wrote:
> There's another consideration, which is are you optimizing hackage by > pessimizing development? You could break xmonad-contrib into (usually) one > package per module if you really wanted to --- but now the developers need > to track a couple hundred packages and possibly as many darcs or git or > whatever repos. You've just nibbled that project to death by making it too > difficult for developers to bother with. > It also occurs to me that you might have also made the original problem much worse instead of better: now we have a hundred or so micro-packages that can get into diamond or worse dependency conflicts, where there was only one possible source of conflict. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix/linux, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure http://sinenomine.net
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