Todd T. Fries [2008-11-18, 14:57:53]: > Personally, I am not liking the debian way of: > > -libs > -includes > -docs > -bins > -dev > > etc for each package. It seems overly piecemeal and makes things frustrating > when trying to build things. > > I am to understand there is a difference between blindly breaking packages up > for simple things and splitting things out for huge size shavings. > > Look at texlive for example .. it has several different packages, but the > larger chunk of it is set as PKG_ARCH=* so not only do you shave if the base > package is updated but you also shave on space/bandwidth if you end up with > multiple archs building the same thing. > > I for one am quite content with the middle ground, which is to say, if it > is `large enough' to be of `significant' size (i.e. disk/bandwidth) shaving, > then it seems useful to have either '-data' or '-docs' multipackages.
I agree. We can split stuff whenever it is reasonable. Texlive is a nice example, it would not make sense to put that into one monolithic package. Sensible splitting doesn't mean we have to take everything apart like some other OSes do.
