>On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:31:55PM +0100, Peter C. Tribble wrote: > >> Why on earth does gnome/jds come in 200 odd separate packages? Does the >> split of files make any sense? > >It does, but it's reasonably arcane, and like Casper said, it suffers >greatly from the lack of good tools to manage it. > >Each glob of functionality can have up to five packages associaged with it >(for instance, SUNWgnome-vfs) -- -devel, -devel-share, -root, and -share.
Is there really a good reason, though, to make GNOME more than five packages? As long as we don't do RPM style patches, who would install only M out of N GNOME packages (not to pick on GNOME, we all offend here). What model is behind this granularity? Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
