Re: Documentation Policy

To: joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org (Debian Development)
Subject: Re: Documentation Policy
From: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 1997 21:30:58 -0500
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In-reply-to: joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 18:27:46 +0200"
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joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze) writes:

> I don't like the idea of splitting packages that much.  It increses
> the confusion for users.   For new users it is incredible difficult
> to install Debian because of >1000 packages.

I think keeping the user from having to deal with this complexity
(level of detail) should just be handled by dselect's next generation,
and making the separate packages allows quite a bit more flexibility.

-- 
Rob

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