On 2025-12-14 Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/12/25 06:54, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > exim allows one to build lookups and other optional features as dlopened > > shared objects that are opened on-demand. So I could move from ... > > > > Package: exim4-daemon-heavy > > Depends: libc6, ... libmariadb3, libpq5, libldap2, ... > > > > ... to: > > Package: exim4-daemon-modular > > Depends: libc6, ... > > > > Package: exim-mod-mysql > > Depends: libmariadb3 > > > > Package: exim-mod-postgresql > > Depends: libpq5 > > > > I am not too hot about adding a nontrivial number of tiny binary > > packages
> Hi, > what's bad about tiny binary packages? I find the future situation you > describe much better (from a user point of view) than the existing one. [...] Hello Gioele, yes, it was the only thing I could think of that I did what I wanted. Given that adding packages has significant cost (the Packages file is downladed gazillion times and present on every single installation) I wanted to doublecheck whether there was a better way. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
