[CentOS] Huge OO.org packages installed by default

[Craig White]

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.
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> > > Red Hat does so since Fedora Core 4.
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> > Right ... remember that you are comparing CentOS-4 (based on FC3) with
> > the latest release of Mandriva.  They are doing it different now too.
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> It is more than that.
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> 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.
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> Conectiva was known for splitting everything into multiple packages.
> glibc alone was separed in 40+ packages.
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> 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".
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> 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.
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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