On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:54:18AM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >For example: mplayer > >It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. > >We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. > >The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major > >distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low. > > Not quite true. In reality, they're just the same. mplayer simply checks > whether it was called as mplayer or gmplayer. So you not only have two > programs in one package, but even in one binary. Changing this behaviour > has nothing to do with packaging and is really upstream's responsibility, > IMHO.
Additionally... once you start down that path, the changes to pkgs become less then minor. Some are simple, some ain't. Personally, I hate that approach- ignoring any political/warring idiocy, my main issue with debian is the choice to split upstream packages into multiple sub packages. Makes things a pain in the ass to what you want/need and makes for fun lock-step dependencies between the subpackages. ~harring
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