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Re: udftools, pktsetup and init scripts



]] Ian Jackson 

There is still no need to Cc folks on Debian lists unless explicitly
requested.

> Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: udftools, pktsetup and init scripts"):
> >] Pali Rohár 
> > 
> > > What do you think about moving pktsetup into own binary package? Users
> > > who do not need packet writing configuration and only need tools for UDF
> > > filesystem would install only udftools package.
> >
> > udftools is a tiny package, splitting it seems a bit meaningless.
> 
> AIUI the point of splitting it would be to allow people to avoid the
> udev rule.  It is often a good idea to separate packages containing
> quiescent utilities from packages containing automatical-launching
> configuration etc.

There doesn't seem to be anybody asking for that in any of the open
bugs, AFAICS.  It's trivial to mask a udev rule if you don't want it as
well, so while it's sometimes reasonable to do what was suggested, it's
not a given.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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