Re: [Cooker] Too many unneeded packages

2001-08-29 Thread Marcel Pol
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:47:03 +0200 laurent Montel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created these packages with all feature. So kdegraphics needs gphoto2, sorry but it's necessary. I don't have time to split package. But if you want that I split packages, I will split them after mdk 8.1 but I

Re: [Cooker] Too many unneeded packages

2001-08-29 Thread laurent Montel
Le Mercredi 29 Aot 2001 00:48, Alexander Skwar a écrit : Hi Hi, I created these packages with all feature. So kdegraphics needs gphoto2, sorry but it's necessary. I don't have time to split package. But if you want that I split packages, I will split them after mdk 8.1 but I will not create

Re: [Cooker] Too many unneeded packages

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Woods
Granted, gphoto2 is only 70k, libgphoto2 only 515k and efax is only some 200k in size - but this adds up! Not just that, but from a security point of view, the less stuff installed, the less chance of being r00ted. After all, if a vulnerability is later found in a package you don't even use,

Re: [Cooker] Too many unneeded packages

2001-08-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Daniel Woods« am 2001-08-28 um 22:53:17 -0600 : make you a happy camper. However, a reported vulnerability for a package you do NOT have installed can simply be ignored by you. Yep, exactly. I'd like to see *MUCH* more smaller packages. Maybe like in Debian. For example, in