Re: Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 13 Mar 2000, Stephen Zander wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> writes:
> > Joseph> Only 6000? We must be getting lazy. 6000 is way too
> > Joseph> easy. Better try for 8000.
> >
> > Now one ever thought the Dow would break 10k: took 'em 10yrs to get
> > from 3k to there. I'm sure we can do it in 2yrs (which is about when
> > woody will be out, right? :))
>
> I still think we should be honest and report the number of source
> packages, not binary packages; e.g. I find the following all parts of
We can report both...
Overrides covers the binary packages and Sorces covers the source
packages, right?
> just one package:
>
> glibc-doc
> i18ndata
> libc6
> libc6-dev
> locales
>
> It _is_ useful to be able to install these separate parts, of course...
>
I've been working on a selective source building script, so I know just
what you mean.
Luck,
Dwarf
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