On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:36:12PM +0200, Georges Mariano wrote: > OK, I understand your point (and to some extent, I agree with you) > Size of packages may or may not be a question, rigth. But, in fact I > have another point in my mind which I didn't express before... > One argument to gather some libs together is "curiosity" !! think about the perl packaging on debian. There exists a lot of little debian package which contain a few modules all which the same 'argument', so we have libxml-perm liburi-perl and so on. In our case the modules we are talking about are not so related to each other to fit in a single bundle of library IMHO, when we will have a lot of similar library we may build a bundle of library in a single package. So we may will have libxml-ocaml with contain not only pxp parser but thousand of xml parser for ocaml. Now, is not a valid reason having only a few packages, to aggregate them in a larger package IMHO. > Avoiding me to write two separate mails, may I take the place to write > some words about how I "see" the place of ocaml-findlib : [snip] > c) what I do not "accept" (from an "intellectual" point of view) is the > fact that installing pxp requires installing findlib ... what's the > relationship between XML parsing and OCaml packages management ? > So, I can't see any reason preventing users, who don't want findlib, to > switch it off... > It would be nice to get PXP (or whatever) without findlib, but if > findlib is available on the target Debian boxe, then PXP (or whatever) > registers itself in the database ... > (just think at findlib like at our "dh_install_ocaml_deb" ?? ) I agree on this point, but now I'm packaging pxp, netstring and similar with the dependencies on findlib, in future I will relax this need in an optional need. I think is better having quickly the modules and next improve the modules' affordance. > Georges > (who's sticked at home after a bug in his wife's car, may be a > dpkg-reconfigure is needed...) When is expected the new version of the Georges package ? :-) -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants to be Open"
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