On Debian and Fedora experiences
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Dec 4 15:14:19 UTC 2006
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?
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