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