On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:35:54 +0200 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kjow wrote: > > > > Because it is a smaller download (for this purpuse) and it has simpler > > management (no unpack and one file instead 19 files). :) > > I also don't know why they decided to split FPC into so many .deb packages. > As a developer, you would want all those anyway, so why not save everybody > the trouble and simply distribute it as a single fpc-2.2.4-i386.deb?? AFAIK It's debian policy that if installing a mysql unit it has all it needs. And the number of packages is irrelevant, since you only install the top package and the package manager fetches the rest automatically. This debian packages are not made for single file installers. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
