On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 01:34 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:11:44PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Yeah that looks like it. Why-oh-why couldn't RH do the smart thing and split it out into language packages like Mandriva? I'll have to remember to set my partition size when installing RH distros to 7 or 10GB, not 5.
Red Hat does so since Fedora Core 4.
Right ... remember that you are comparing CentOS-4 (based on FC3) with the latest release of Mandriva. They are doing it different now too.
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.
---- Upstream took all of the languages out of main packaging in Fedora Core 4 and obviously intends to keep doing that. Too late for CentOS 4 but future releases will split Oo
Craig