On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
On 12/05/10 at 05:38pm, Kaiting Chen wrote:
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@vdwaa.nl> wrote:
Hello all. I would love to see improvements like more splitting of packages which has been done with packages like compiz.
Hi, can I ask what you mean by the splitting of packages? The last thing I want to see is the debianization of our distribution, where one package is needlessly split into a hundred little ones. --Kaiting.
-- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
Well for example handbrake could be split to handbrake-gtk, handbrake-qt, etc. And then only if the app supports it with configure flags. And my other argument for more splitting is purely for creating a -data package if the app is big and if the -data pkg has an arch=('any') so you have a smaller repo ;)
btw I don't know how crazy debian is with splitting packages ;)
I like the idea of splitting packages between server and client if there is a significant difference in dependencies between the server and the client. However I really don't like the idea of splitting out -data packages. This is basically what Debian does. I remember they would take a single package and split it to *-bin, *-libs, *-dev, *-src, *-otherstuff, etc. It's a nightmare. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/