Re: shall `make uninstall' remove directories?

[François Pinard]

Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Honestly, I see no difference between plenty of small utilities and
> one big.

Oh, each supplementary file we distribute is a bit of a burden to the
maintainer (Auto- tools could help here :-), but more importantly, one more
bit of pollution each time the maintainer does `ls' in his/her work files.

A lot of small files is meaningful while things are developed.  Once done,
packaging fewer, but bigger files, is often better: just more manageable.
I would hate to see regexp.[ch] or malloc.[ch] split up in a lot of smaller
files, probably installed as libraries into there own directories, for every
package using them.  I'm not very comfortable with the current `intl/' and
`m4/' everywhere, say.  Even if I understand that there were once useful
in the infancy of things, I hope these will go away in the long run.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard