On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 15:57 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:Forget rewriting them, how about just aggregating them into one package?
Sounds better. I mean to one binary with switches like --from=<img_format> and --to=<img_format> .
My main objection is that this makes the Debian experience different than in other distributions. Programs like k3b that rely on these small utilities are easier when they act the same on every platform (bugfixes aside), and I would feel bad making their jobs harder.
It also means that the manual page for the super-meta-package would be long and complicated, full of program-specific caveats like the "mount" man page.
It doesn't seem worth it to make both developers' and end-users' lives harder. (It also makes my life harder, since I'd have actually wrap them all up, but I'll mention that last and least.)
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