On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:45, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > This alone is not sufficient reason for producing four packages instead of > one. This wastes resources in many places (the Debian package list, the > dpkg database, etc.). You must consider whether the benefit is worth the > cost.
Of course, with the current version of dpkg, your point is very good and entirely valid. Thinking ahead, wouldn't it be a good idea to fix dpkg and the package list to support a larger number of packages? The number of packages in Debian has been constantly growing, and if I'm not mistaken, a release of sarge would include somewhere between 10000 and 15000 packages. A presumptive sarge+1 could very well have much more than 15000 packages. If sarge is released any time soon, then a few split packages won't be a big deal. If it isn't, there will certainly be a lot more packages in testing, perhaps enough to require this change of dpkg and the package list anyway. So is the cost really that great? Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
