Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Antonio Terceiro writes ("Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages"):
> This is not a personal response to you, I am just pigging back on your
> email.
...
> As a regular reader of debian-devel, I must say I am frustrated by this
> discussion being raised yet another time.

I can see why this is frustrating.  I posted because I didn't feel
that the previous discussions had produced what I considered a
sensible answer.

I'm sorry to have added to your (and, no doubt, others') feelings of
negativity, tiredness etc.

This kind of thing is one of the consequences of the project's
dysfunctional decisionmaking processes.

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages"):
> There have been various efforts to aggregate tiny packages together into
> larger packages in the past.  I'm familiar with some of those efforts on
> the Perl team.  My impression is that, in every case where upstream was
> not doing the same aggregation, the result has been somewhere between
> uncomfortably awkward and a disaster.  [much snipped]

Thanks, Russ, for a very good answer to my question.

Can we keep it somewhere ?

Thanks,
Ian.

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