Bug#664227: ITP: node-inherits -- Easy simple tiny inheritance in JavaScript

[Fernando Lemos <fernandotcl@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Jérémy Lal <jerry@edagames.com> wrote:
> On 16/03/2012 23:45, Fernando Lemos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> wrote:
>>> The actual function is laughably small. 10-lines small.
>>
>> If that's the case, is it really a good idea to package this at all?
>
> You mean small packages should be avoided ?
> Like libregexp-common-email-address-perl ?
>
> There will be at least two packages (npm and node-glob) depending node-inherits,
> so that's enough of a good reason for me.

Can't those be integrated into bigger packages? It seems useless to
package with such granularity. The space overhead becomes huge, the
dependency graph becomes a mess and it's not easy for a maintainer to
specify tons of dependencies on tiny packages.

Regards,