Re: Bug#286214: ITP: kwin-style-asteroid -- Pixel-for-pixel clone of Win2000 GUI style for KDE
Op ma, 20-12-2004 te 21:23 +0100, schreef Marcin Orlowski:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> > Please, put all of these packages in a single one. Putting them in
> > separate packages has no meaning from the user's point of view.
>
> I strongly disagree. It definitely makes a big difference to the user.
> Why shall one be happy fetching bloated deb containing 10 styles
> just because s/he wants one?
Why not? What harm does it do?
> All of them are far from being
> related, so the "merged" package shall be updated whenever each
> style it contains is updated by upstream.
That shouldn't happen /too/ much, should it?
And if it does, there's nothing stopping you from updating the package,
say, every three months (unless there's a critical bug in one of the
themes), is there?
> Then, the user fetches
> and updates its package, even s/he does not use the style
> that was the cause of package update. Does it still makes any
> sense to you?
Sure.
Merging all these into one package will not do much harm to the user
(who will be able to install a 2M package on top of his 250MB KDE
installation to get all the choice of GUI themes he would ever want to
have); OTOH, more packages do have a negative impact on everyone --
increased size of the Packages file (which isn't good for modem users
and people with slower hardware) and increased overall size of the
archive.
Of course, the effect will be negligable if one only considers these
packages; but it will not be if everyone would consider those
consequences.
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