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Re: loginutils package, etc.



   Date: Wed, 6 Mar 96 21:48 GMT
   From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
   To: bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
   Cc: Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>,
           Debian developers list <debian-devel@Pixar.com>
   Subject: Re: loginutils package, etc.
   
   Bruce Perens writes ("loginutils package, etc."):
   >   When in doubt, please split packages into smaller
   > ones rather than making big packages.
   
   I'm not sure I agree with this.  We have 350 packages in the devel
   tree atm ...
   
   Ian.

Doesn't it make more sence to have install software run longer than
to risk humans getting confused by how the recipe for a package goes
together? 

Costa

   


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