[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:26:28 +0200
On 07/10/2013 18:09, Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> This may or may not be the best place to say this, but regarding
> "splitting up" related packages, I would like to put a big -10000000
> vote on that whole idea.
>
> As an example, I hate, hate, hate, hate how Debian-based Linux distros
> have a bunch of Ruby packages, where you have a core ruby package, and
> then irb (the interactive interpreter), then rdoc (class
> documentation), and then who knows what else. In every other sane
> system all those are just considered part of Ruby and are all
> together. Splitting them up is stupid and unnecessary, and just
> creates more work for both packagers and users.
But in the case of Debian which can be used on servers, it is necessary
to be able to install something without the X11-based frontends which
might pull in all the unwanted graphical stuff, for ex...
Same for many other parts.
François.
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