Re: circular depends: problem
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> You ask a good question Jules. Let me try to explain my reasoning.
>
> The finished E deb is 51k. The finished -theme deb is 910k. Now, if
> there is a bug in the binary and I have to recompile -- all you have to
> download is the 51k package, not the huge theme. I thought this would
> also lessen the burden on other arch maintainers because there are only
> to binary packages, E and dox.
:-) Two good reasons. I retract my point. The 2nd is especially
important - it saves a *lot* of space on the mirrors... (910k * (num_archs
-1)) potentially...
>
> As to the theme, I have no intents of making packages out of every joe
> blow's theme. No point in filling up Debian w/ them, just put them in
> your home dir where they belong.
Unless one becomes particularly popular, or we design a special debian one
for use as a new-user default.
Jules
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