On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:11:13AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > In the end I believe that as long as a package in Debian is being used by more > than 1 person it has value. Let's fight the urge to just package something > because it is interesting. However if there is a user base out there then > Debian should support them. Our users should not have to compile software on > their own. I agree. The only thing to be careful when packaging things is keeping the dependency list small. I remember those days where the gettext package suddenly depended on some emacs package (*shudder*). So this leads sometimes to packages split into "foo-common", "foo-gnome", "foo-gtk" or sometimes just compiled without gome/kde support. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Kleineidam · reflexionsniveau@web.de · GPG key ID 32EC6F3E
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