On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Bart Smaalders
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/09/10 08:58, Martin Bochnig wrote:
>
>> Maybe some users want one file per package, and ten millions of them
>> :)
>> But most don´t. Plus keep in mind the IPS overhead at install-time.
>> Even given the automatic deps resolution of everything without
>> requiring user-interaction.
>
> The overheads involved in IPS are much more a function of the number of
> packages installed on the machine, rather than the number of packages
> being installed.
Think twice.
Shall I explain the (entire) complexity involved?
> In any case, those overheads are dropping steadily, and should not
> influence package factoring decisions.
>
> - Bart
If they do (as I already noticed during recent weeks´ discussions)
then it certainly cannot harm.
But arguing in such a Pi times thumb manner is invalid {#0}.
{#0} := good engineering practices
%martin
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