hi marcin,
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:23:28PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> I strongly disagree. It definitely makes a big difference to the user.
> Why shall one be happy fetching bloated deb containing 10 styles
> just because s/he wants one? All of them are far from being
> related, so the "merged" package shall be updated whenever each
> style it contains is updated by upstream. Then, the user fetches
> and updates its package, even s/he does not use the style
> that was the cause of package update. Does it still makes any
> sense to you?
just to argue a counterpoint:
a - your argument about bloating could just as easily be reversed
by arguing that you're bloating the size of the debian archives,
as well as the Packages file.
b - if a user is installing desktop themes, there's a good chance
that he/she will install a large number of them anyway
c - i would imagine that desktop themes would not change all that
frequently, what would be more likely would be the introduction
of new themes.
d - a user doesn't have to update the theme package just because
an update exists.
sean
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