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Re: Policy about packages that have Tk dependent parts.



On 30 Nov 1997 18:28:23 EST Ben Pfaff (pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu) wrote:

> 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.

Phil.



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