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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/10/2013 10:06 AM, 80 wrote:<br>
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as an emacs user, splitting emacs-common has little value to
me, and without a package requiring most of the splitted
packages, it might even turn into an annoyance (much like
texlive).<br>
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Yeah, 4872 packages reported by repoquery texlive*. That's over 12%
of the total number of Fedora packages (38413). <br>
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At first, I thought that it has an excessive number of small
packages---about half of texlive packages are smaller than 50kB. It
turns out, however, that it is par for the course in Fedora; 41% of
all packages are smaller than 50kB. <br>
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In fact, as you can see from the attached histogram comparing the
size distribution of Fedora and texlive packages, both distributions
peak around 20kB, which I suspect may be due to RPM packaging
overhead rather than the inherent payload size. <br>
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Is it reasonable to have so many small packages, especially if, as
is the case of texlive, they are closely related? Are there any
guidelines for when some sort of bundling is appropriate?<br>
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