Am 06.12.2010 00:13, schrieb Jelle van der Waa:
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.
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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 ;)
Hello, handbrake and handbrake-cli already use the same split PKGBUILD. Same for the svn-counterparts in AUR. If the data files are big and architecture independent, splitting save disk space on the server and probably also bandwidth. So in this case it makes sense. I think, Kaiting was thinking that you wanted to split into a end-user and a devel-package (including header files and libs). I did not understand you that way. Regards Stefan