Re: Packages file (long email) [WAS: Splitting Packages]

2002-04-01 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jens Ruehmkorf wrote: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Any complexity theorist will tell you that optimizing away constant > > factors gains you nothing in the long run, especially when you lose > > robustness by doing so. > > If at least the constant would be high

Re: Packages file (long email) [WAS: Splitting Packages]

2002-04-01 Thread Jens Ruehmkorf
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:49:53PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > If we always have to stick 100% to Policies and possible breaks than > > we should just leave things like they are now. People rised a serious > > problem and the idea is to try to