On 4/11/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter Tribble wrote:
> I like the second idea - remove the package entirely and make sure
> the files are always available under any conditions.
>
> (One could also ask why SUNWesu is a separate package.)
>
I was under the impression that many people found our package
breakdown already too coarse. Is this not the case?
No, we have far too many packages. The resulting level of choice
and subsequent diversity of configuration lead to chaos.
Ultimately, the split into packages is done along boundaries that
aren't useful for users.
Two contrasting examples:
SUNWsmapi shouldn't exist as a package - it supplies one library
which is used by the format command. (And presumably other things,
but splitting a single library used by the format command into a separate
package just can't be right.)
In snv_61, we get svn. In order for the svn client to work you need
to install the apache2 server.
The second case argues for more granularity, for sure - we just need
to do the other half of the problem and consolidate packages that don't
need to be split.
--
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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