Re: Policy about packages that have Tk dependent parts.
On 30 Nov 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
>
> > > Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> > > > Two packages instead of one. We have 1400+ packages in main (around 2000
> > > > including non-free and contrib), and I think we should apply care when
> > > > creating new packages especially when the foo-tk package is likely to be
> > > > a few kilobytes.
> > >
> > > Why is it a bad thing in itself to have more packages, even if we have
> > > a lot of them?
> >
> > Well, if you find it easy to nagivate through 2000 packages, will all the
> > current mess of lib-g, altdev, devs, then it's ok for me.
>
> I understand your sentiment, but my feeling is that adding the
> additional package is probably not a big deal. The names will be
> closely related, so it should be obvious what they're for.
>
> Not creating the two packages won't solve our problem with package
> count overload; for that we need a more general solution because we
> *will* keep getting more packages. Last I heard, the diety project
> was working on addressing this issue.
Did you have a look at the experimental deity release? It looks like the
list will still be a bit long... (However, this is a pre-alpha version, so
things might change.)
Anyways, I still prefer the solution of having everything in a single
package (if that package is small, of course), "Suggesting" or
"Recommending" the appropriate interpreter. Then, should replace the
Tcl/Tk (or whatever) script with a small wrapper shell script which checks
if the interpreter is installed. If not, the script should give a
reasonable error message.
The sgrep package is currently 55k big. I don't think it's a good idea to
split this package into two.
Thanks,
Chris
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