On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 03:08, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Colin Walters"> > > > I understand what the maintainership issues are, but what other user > > issues are you thinking of? > > Consider gnome-vfs-extras, which is split out in upstream for licensing > reasons. That's already rough, but if it were split into its component > methods, they would be very hard to 'discover'.
To comply with policy then, all we'd need to do is rename it to gnomevfs-methods-extra. > An easy answer to this is that users should always use the 'gnome' > metapackage, but that's not always how users work. ;-) > > (There are other examples of this granularity becoming a usability issue, > including themes, etc., but I've stuck with vfs methods for now.) Well, in the gnome-vfs-extras case there really isn't another good choice. I guess in summary I don't really think that splitting out GnomeVFS methods will increase this problem.
