Re: Wasteful packaging

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> cum veritate scripsit:

> We _really_ should be packaging things like this better - the common
> stuff should go into binary-all packages with appropriate
> dependencies!

This is apt to break unless you are careful, and causes dependency loops.
Don't try to do it before woody. Don't expect every package to be
able to do it unless you can introduce some automatic scheme for
doing it automatically, without breaking something.




regards,
	junichi

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