Guidelines for creating subpackages?
Jima
jima at beer.tclug.org
Sun Dec 2 20:52:04 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> End-users also expect a package install not to drag in packages that are
> not useful. Especially system administrator end-users who care about
> avoiding bloat. Installing everything may be confusing too, not for a
> user who just don't care about what is installed on his computer but for
> a user who want to keep control.
Man. We have such a rough job.
"Fedora doesn't install enough packages! You're being mean to
sysadmins!"
"Fedora installs too many packages! You're being mean to sysadmins!"
What's worse is that we haven't changed _anything_ between these two
complaints. I guess it goes to show that whatever we do, someone's going
to be unhappy.
Jima
(Oops, forgot to send this earlier.)
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