* Nirbheek Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > It's bad, just because Debian does it ?! > > Yes, because their technical design is different from Gentoo's.
Still too religious ;-P Would be different if you'd said "we don't need to split since we have useflags" or "we want to stay as near to upstream as possible" instead of "we're not debian". Being different, just to be different is really too pubertal for me ;-o > Debian/$binary_distro have to split up packages because they have no > other way of mapping configure flags to what the user wants to > install. Gentoo does, and they're called USE flags. Right, binary distros have a much bigger presure on that, but this doesn't mean that splitting is always bad. Think of all these useflag-deps, which often wouldn't be necessary if the packages would be split in finer granularity. Of course, this is mostly the upstream's fault. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
