Hi, I'm not actually a Debian developer yet, but while I'm waiting on the application to go through I may as well ask some questions that I've been unable to find a good answer to. I'm going to be packaging a text editor that I wrote (lpe) which builds as an executable and a set of modules, one per file type... eg, there's a module for editing C, and one for perl, and one for sgml. With no modules, lpe acts like a generic text editor, and quite a few people just ignore the modules and use it that way. My question, then, is this. Should I put it all in one binary package, or should I create an lpe and and lpe-modules package, and have lpe (suggest/recommend) the modules package?
Right now, none of it will be too awfully big -- the total binary plus modules are about 100K of installed space. But while the binary will probably remain between 40 and 50K in size, the modules will probably become substantially larger as more modes are added. So I thought I should plan ahead and separate everything now. Comments? Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
