On 12/06/10 at 12:09am, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 05.12.2010 23:38, Kaiting Chen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello all. > >> I would love to see > >> improvements like more splitting of packages which has been done with > >> packages like compiz. > > > > Hi, can I ask what you mean by the splitting of packages? The last thing I > > want to see is the debianization of our distribution, where one package is > > needlessly split into a hundred little ones. --Kaiting. > > > I think he is referring mostly to the game packages. Currently if you > want to setup a dedicated game server, you will also have to install the > whole graphics dependency stack like mesa on a headless, X-less server. > This is obviously undesirable. > > Splitting would make sense in this case, though so far due to lack of > time these packages weren't spit. > > In detail, it would mean splitting a package like nexuiz into > nexuiz-client, nexuiz-server, nexuiz-data, nexuiz-common. I agree that > this looks Debian-ish but it might actually make sense. > > -- Sven-Hendrik
Indeed this is partly what i mean with splitting packages. I actually just mean get rid of big packages ( 400Mb ) and turn them into arch=any if you can ( like urbanterror, urbanterro-data) -- Jelle van der Waa
