[CentOS] Huge OO.org packages installed by default

[Tim Edwards]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:

> 
> It is more than that.
> 
> I remember talking to Jeff Johnson a few years ago. I was working at Conectiva,
> and contributing code to rpm. The subject of our discussion was package
> splitting.
> 
> Conectiva was known for splitting everything into multiple packages.
> glibc alone was separed in 40+ packages.
> 
> Jeff said that they, at RedHat, didn't agree with package splitting.
> It makes maintenance harder, installing more confusing for the
> users and, to quote him "harddisk space is cheap".
> 
> So I have to say that this issue goes way back, and is not as
> recent as FC4. I don't remember the exact date of this discussion, but
> I think it was 2000 or 2001.

Yeah a quick check of the mirros shows Mandrake have been splitting it 
into language packages since it first appeared in the main repoisitory 
in 9.2 (Oct 2003).
-- 
Tim Edwards