On Debian and Fedora experiences
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Dec 4 15:23:15 UTC 2006
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:51:26AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> A far better solution is to split the libraries that would use say aalib
>> into a subpackage so that you can install the base package without
>> needing aalib,
>> and choose to install the subpackage that might pull in the aalib dep.
>> The OLPC project has helped to identify a lot of these scenarios and to
>> split out functionality as such.
>
> Or not. This may be useful for OLPC, but aalib is, what, 164k? Is that
> really worth the overhead of a zillion more subpackages?
I think Jesse was just using aalib as an example. Packagers certainly need
to weight the advantages and disadvantages to subpkgs, and where
significant dependency/space savings would warrant their usage.
-- Rex
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