Re: Fuppes: Package Names and the Separation of a Project into Packages

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:18:22PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hm I'd first consider the size of each of the plugin packages. If
> they're relatively small you could consider grouping them, seems
> like that it is already somewhat done in core, database, encoder,
> metadata, ... if these are not depending on each other it could be
> a sensible choice. If they're really small all in one is ok as
> well.

Equally important in this decision is the size and number of
dependencies for each package. While the packages themselves may be
small, the fine-grained split may have been intended more to avoid
the user installing a ton of dependencies for particular features
they didn't need anyway.
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