On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:07:25AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > But the problem with lots of small packages is not that the Packages.xz > > has too many bytes. > > It's that the packaging tools, UIs (for users and developers), and > > humans, need to think about too many packages. > > This makes packaging tools slow, UIs cluttered, and humans confused. > > So we need to figure out how to solve that problem. But "don't package > things" is not a good solution to that problem, obviously, and "don't > package small things" or "don't use a packaging structure that works well > for our tools" aren't much better.
SCNR https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422139#151 Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140725172802.16488.qm...@22ba4216a2609a.315fe32.mid.smarden.org
