Why fedora have not splitted packages?
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Sep 1 20:30:02 UTC 2004
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, dima wrote:
> Why fedora have not splitted packages? For example in Debian some packages,
> such as kde-games, kde-network and etc are splitted into small packages.
> It`s very good idea. End-user may select only needed packages or install
> virtual global package.
Because it's a whole lot of work for relatively little gain (disk space
mainly)
IMO, In general, if upstream developers package their software/tarballs
(e.g. kdegames, kdenetwork) monolitically, so should the rpm packaging.
-- Rex
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