Re: Bug#286214: ITP: kwin-style-asteroid -- Pixel-for-pixel clone of Win2000 GUI style for KDE
Le vendredi 18 février 2005 à 12:35 +0100, Marcin Orlowski a écrit :
> 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?
You have to find a good balance between putting everything in a single
package and putting every random file in a separate package.
> > 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".
Hey, we're talking about kwin themes. Not stuff that gets updated every
other week.
> 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 ;)
No, this is promoting clarity in our packages listing. Users will get
lost if they have to install separate packages for things as trivial as
kwin themes.
Our GDM themes are all in a single package; do you think it would do any
good to separate them, only to save 1 MB of download? Our users would be
lost; there's no way you can tell which GDM theme you want before having
seen what they look like. It's exactly the same for kwin themes: if the
user wants a specific theme, having a special package for it is almost
no gain, as the user can download the theme and install it in a few
seconds. If you don't know what theme you want, you'll have to install
all of them and test them. That's when a single package becomes handy.
Regards,
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