Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages
On 11/02/2016 02:04 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> There have been various efforts to aggregate tiny packages together into
> larger packages in the past. I'm familiar with some of those efforts on
> the Perl team. My impression is that, in every case where upstream was
> not doing the same aggregation, the result has been somewhere between
> uncomfortably awkward and a disaster.
We have an even worse situation with nagios-plugins-contrib - various
upstreams, various (often weird) download locations and a mix plugins
from single tiny scripts to stuff that uses automake, flex and others to
build plugins.
The solution was a bit of python code, a generic makefile and we even
have a 'uscan' replacement.
The gory details are described in
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bzed/pkg-nagios-plugins-contrib/master/debian/README.source
in case you're interested.
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