Re: Splitting netsaint-plugins into many packages?

[Nick Jennings <nick@namodn.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:28:09AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch> writes:
> > Ben Bell schrieb:
> > > The reason for doing this is that each of these optional plugins pulls in
> > > a bunch of big packages, like postgres or snmp, but I'm worried about
> > > the package bloat.
> > 
> > What about leaving them in one package that Suggests the other
> 
> Nah, if I install netsaint (or whatever), everything should work. I
> should not go around and look, uh, it's a SNMP plugin, it does not
> work, maybe I should install libsnmp.
> 
> Maybe split out the plugins which have outrageous dependencies... If
> it's only three plugins which have extra library requirements:
> 
>   netsaint-snmp-plugin
>   netsaint-postgres-plugin
>   netsaint-msyslog-plugin
>   netsaint-base-plugins        <--- all the rest

 Check out the webmin package for an example of this.

> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
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  Nick Jennings