Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: splitting packages

2007-05-14 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 14:25 -0700, Daniel Ostrow wrote: > > We release our packages as upstream intends. If they don't split them, > we don't split them, talk to upstream not us. Well that is not always the case. Not to contradict. We tend to make packages in the Java world that are subsets of a

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: splitting packages

2007-05-14 Thread Joshua Jackson
Daniel Ostrow wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:18 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> >> I know this issue is not actually in the scope of this list, but >> maybe some of you might be interested: >> >> Lots of packages have optional parts which (IMHO) should/could be >> their own

Re: [gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: splitting packages

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel Ostrow
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:18 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I know this issue is not actually in the scope of this list, but > maybe some of you might be interested: > > Lots of packages have optional parts which (IMHO) should/could be > their own packages, ie. GUI frontends to c

[gentoo-dev] 1/2 OT: splitting packages

2007-05-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I know this issue is not actually in the scope of this list, but maybe some of you might be interested: Lots of packages have optional parts which (IMHO) should/could be their own packages, ie. GUI frontends to console tools (aumix) or several language bindings of certain libs/toolk