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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:49:41PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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).
Well .. OK, I won't get in to political distro discussions ... however; CentOS is cloning this condition very well ... and did I mention that CentOS is free :)
Well, I think the fact that I was part of this discussion back then, and I'm using CentOS now, shows where I stand.
Yes, I would love to see more package granularity on CentOS. But all things considered, I like CentOS better.
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