Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Two packages instead of one. We have 1400+ packages in main (around 2000 > > > including non-free and contrib), and I think we should apply care when > > > creating new packages especially when the foo-tk package is likely to be > > > a few kilobytes. > > > > Why is it a bad thing in itself to have more packages, even if we have > > a lot of them? > > Well, if you find it easy to nagivate through 2000 packages, will all the > current mess of lib-g, altdev, devs, then it's ok for me.
I understand your sentiment, but my feeling is that adding the additional package is probably not a big deal. The names will be closely related, so it should be obvious what they're for. Not creating the two packages won't solve our problem with package count overload; for that we need a more general solution because we *will* keep getting more packages. Last I heard, the diety project was working on addressing this issue. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30
