Well o.k. on the "all" , I figured as much too. Really I did.... I am aware of some stuff already being 'split'. Really I was.....
Perhaps a better way of viewing my rant is to look at things this way; CAN some of the various things proposed to date (in this thread) be accomplished in a more 'elegant' way ? <- I am asking that this question be asked EACH time someone proposes a 'solution' to some 'problem/issue' they are facing. I have seen in this thread solutions to problems that are not problems at all !; i.e. Stuff that is solved with simple scripting and using things like provides, conflicts, and many of the other 'improvements' that ALREADY exist in pacman. <- Yes, some of this discussion has been to improve things that do NOT exist, but some has not. I WAS SPEAKING TO ALL OF THE THREAD. Anyways, YMMV of course, AND Very best regards; Bob Finch > > As I understand, noone is going to split all arch packages. > > But some packages already splitted. > > See, for example > - samba > - gcc > - *-info and some *-doc packages in community > etc... > >>> Just one users comment after having read through this thread -> > >>> Split packages made Mandrake/Mandriva a big mess. In the early days >>> of Arch the philosophy was that arch was not for everyone AND that >>> things should be as "KISS" as possible. > >>> Debian is a big mess because of their *needlessly* >>> complicated/non-intuitive methods of packaging. > >>> I could go on and on with other examples as the list is quite long of >>> distros that started out great and became tiresome to package for or >>> to use. > >>> I *hope* that I will not have to go looking for another distro >>> because Arch has morphed into one of the ones I left because it >>> became too difficult and time consuming to work with. (I even left >>> the distro that I was a principle at for these very same reasons, so >>> I am sensitive to when distros have the potential for loosing sight >>> of their goals and principles.) > >>> SO...I am asking that you guys think THREE times about any changes >>> you make that could make Arch go too far from the KISS principle it >>> started with and remember that Arch never had the goal of being the >>> distro for everyone's needs. > >>> This IS just my opinion and YMMV of course. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
