Re: Bug#286214: ITP: kwin-style-asteroid -- Pixel-for-pixel clone of Win2000 GUI style for KDE
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Why not? What harm does it do?
It enforces you to fetch and install 9 additional components you simply
do not want. Going that way, why do not put i.e. all the PHP modules in
one deb? or even better - we shall have it all with apache. or even better
we shall have one big "webserver" package with all the stuff related.
Got the point?
> 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?
The thing I don't like in debian is that it usually stays far behind
in term of updating packages. I often hear "Debian? no, I want be up
to date".
> 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.
Why do you imitate you care modem users? You care a few bytes more in
Packages (text file! gzipped!) but ommit additional megabytes in the
package? It's like promoting bloatware ;)
Regards,
--
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Marcin http://wfmh.org.pl/carlos/
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