Re: Debian GNOME Policy, Mark II

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 03:08, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Walters">
> 
> > I understand what the maintainership issues are, but what other user
> > issues are you thinking of?
> 
> Consider gnome-vfs-extras, which is split out in upstream for licensing
> reasons. That's already rough, but if it were split into its component
> methods, they would be very hard to 'discover'.

To comply with policy then, all we'd need to do is rename it to
gnomevfs-methods-extra.

> An easy answer to this is that users should always use the 'gnome'
> metapackage, but that's not always how users work. ;-)
> 
> (There are other examples of this granularity becoming a usability issue,
> including themes, etc., but I've stuck with vfs methods for now.)

Well, in the gnome-vfs-extras case there really isn't another good
choice.

I guess in summary I don't really think that splitting out GnomeVFS
methods will increase this problem.