I think it was more to split into dev and user parts - and died because of similarities to redhat/mandrake problems where tracking parts of packages turns into a type of rpm hell for users. A package is a package, better left that way.
BillK On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:11, Mike Frysinger wrote: > a 'bug' came up with svgalib and automatic building of stages which reminded > me of an old idea of splitting packages into their kernel module and user > space parts ... > > the reason isnt so that re-emerging packages would be a lot faster when > upgrading the kernel (although that is an advantage) but so that we could > explicitly break apart things like this > > i thought there was a bug open about this but wasnt able to find it ... anyone > remember anything that might have been discussed about it ? > -mike > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
