On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 02:48:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > > * Some Javascript modules are very small, resulting in lots of small > > packages > > I think we need to balance the small packages concern with number of > times such small packages are used. > > node-has was rejected recently because it was "too small". I agree if > only one, two or even three modules depend on it embedding it is okay (I > have been doing that already). But when more than three modules need a > tiny module? Is it really better to embed it that many times?
You should not embed them. Instead you can merge several tiny modules together and ship them as a single .deb, which eventually Provides: node-mod1, node-mod2 etc. So package can still Depends on the individual names. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
