-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDn5espdyWzQ5b5ckRAnRnAJ9QPiFjglwj4338kM6SwplGkRytcgCfUntB uPTFxBf3cLZFPPeuCYZ8U0c= =+9k0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----