On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:46 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
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).
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 :)