On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 01:34 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > > > > > Red Hat does so since Fedora Core 4. > > > > Right ... remember that you are comparing CentOS-4 (based on FC3) with > > the latest release of Mandriva. They are doing it different now too. > > 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. ---- 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