Re: Splitting a package

To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, agi@agi.as
Subject: Re: Splitting a package
From: Andreas Barth <aba+nospam@not.so.argh.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:32:32 +0200
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* Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta (agi@agi.as) [031013 17:24]:
> I've got a package that contains a command line program and a couple of
> front-ends (motif and KDE) for it. This makes neccessary to install 
> lots of KDE libs even if you're only using the command line program.
> 
> Would all this Depends justify splitting it into the command line
> package and the front-ends one?

Yes, they do IMHO. (It's even worse: KDE wants xlibs, so on a
non-X-machine you'll install a lot of libraries for nothing at all.)


Cheers,
Andi
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