Re: Bug#166636: ITP: xfce4-utils -- Various tools for XFce
On 27-Oct-02, 10:58 (CST), Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org> wrote:
> 1) I'm subscribed to debian-devel@, no need to CC me.
Sorry.
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:22:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> Do you really think it's worth to bloat up a package description just for
> bloating it up? XFce4 is nothing else than a panel which is designed to work
> together with XFwm4. Thus, XFwm4 is nothing else than a simple window manager
> like sawfish, made as saucer for XFce4.
If it's so simple, why are you splitting it up into 4 packages? Is it
likely that anyone will use xfce4 w/o xfwm4, or vice versa?
And 'XFce4 is a CDE-like panel program, commonly used with XFwm4' is not
significantly longer than 'See the xfce4 package for more information'.
See, the thing is the package descriptions are there for our users.
Adding a one-liner to help them figure out what the package is for
can not be considered bloat. OTOH, splitting a simple program up into
three (or four) different packages that aren't going to be installed
seperately *is* bloat: far more that the extra 200 bytes needed to do
proper descriptions.
For that matter, if we're going to talk about "bloat", I don't think a
shortage of X window managers is problem that Debian needs to work on
(paraphrasing Havoc Pennington).
Steve
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