On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelb...@web.de> wrote: > I know how to handle the separate "extra" and "lang" packages and that you > should be able to omit them, it's done so in Buildroot. > > But my question was, why they exist in the first place instead of creating a > single package. It makes it more complicated and error-prone and leads to > strange workaround patches with "non-extra part for x.y.z" or "extra part for > x.y.z) in the subject. Look at patch 7.1.283, this should be a non-extra part, > but there is a change in a line with win_socket_id. In Buildroot this patch is > not used, although it's a non-extra patch, because it has two failed hunks. >
if I recall well, originally, Bram needed to have these to fit in a 1.44Mb floppy. when they became too big, he had to make a split. today, with 4Gb usb keys costing 5 euros, I guess we could merge them :) note that my git repo on github is made of vim+extra into 1 product. I did not include the lang package. -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside ! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
