packaging rant

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:40:17 John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > This is a FAQ, and discussed many many times.  I suggest you search the
> > archives.
> > 
> > However, in this case, your comment is laiden with a least a small
> > amount of merit :).  We're thinking about it, it just didn't happen in
> > time for 4.4.  Another TODO for 4.5 perhaps.
> 
> Thanks, Rex. All I can do is ask that you guys work on it. OTOH, I may have
> gotten you a volunteer helper... :-) I posted something similar on the
> regular Fedora list and someone there said "they don't have the
> manpower...maybe if you volunteered..." in response to which someone else
> piped up and said "hey, I've been looking for a way to volunteer...." :-)
> So, maybe you'll get some help that you need. :-)

Manpower is not the only one problem. Kevin has concerns how this change 
affects updates infrastructure - this changes means lot of new packages. Even 
now with monolithic packages it's a huge number...

For first time - it would need lot of work to to split packages, even 
maintaining would introduce some overhead. As we usually answer - if you have 
a good reason for split for some particular application - fill in Bugzilla 
request and we try to fulfill your needs. Also these are small steps to more 
non-monolithic KDE packages. 

Jaroslav
  
> It would be very nice if you were able to break up the packages a bit more
> so that you don't have to install the kitchen sink to install a dishwasher
> (to use a plumbing analogy.) :-)
> 
> It's very frustrating to have so many apps in one package. I remember the
> "good old days" when you got to choose which apps you wanted and didn't
> have to install everything just to get one package. Now days it's like you
> have to install a whole Office suite just to get a text editor. :-)
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