On disttags

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sat May 22 12:25:13 UTC 2004


On Wed, 19 May 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:23:31 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of useless large package updates, why does redhat bundle 
> > koffice-i18n, k3b-i18n (these are just 2 examples) into the main koffice 
> > and k3b rpms, so that any updates to koffice and k3b will also "force 
> > users to eat useless large updates"?
> 
> For extra repositories this is also an issue, but a less important one
> currently as one can obsolete i18n packages in an update any time.

But difficult to the other direction.

--Rex





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