On 24 May 2001 20:23:35 -0500, Ben Burton wrote: > > Hi. I'm about to submit an ITP for a set of KDE window decoration and widget > themes and I'm trying to decide upon the best way to package them. They're > all from the same author (part of a single large release with the same > version number) and there's about 39 themes in total. > > Options are (1) release one huge-arse binary package; (2) release 39 > packages, one for each theme; (3) release a moderate number of packages each > containing a few themes. > > I am hesitant to do (1) because of the user's disk space usage. I am > hesitant to do (2) because I'm not sure that debian wants a million > kde-theme-* packages on its servers.
disk space is cheap and desktop environmente like kde and gnome are not for boxes with limited cpu/ram/hd. so 1 is good. 3 is good too al long as the grouping makes sense. e.g., i don't like dark themes, so would be nice have all them in a single package so that i can avoid to download. but this is so subjective that i don't know if a good criteria will ever emerge... ciao, federico -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research & Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy. -- Anonymous
