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On sob, 2017-06-03 at 03:22 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:51:25 +0200 |
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> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > ...so if a Gentoo package is split into 40 packages in Debian, are you |
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> > going to list all of them? |
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> If it would be useful to do so, maybe. |
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> But its a text file, people are capable of making judgements about |
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> adding 3.2k of text, I hope. ( worst-case, 40 lines of 80 characters each ) |
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> If the text at that size has a use, then, why not? |
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> As long as that 40-package example is an exceptional case, where it was deemed |
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> useful, not the norm. |
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It's not that exceptional in binary distributions where it's normal to |
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split a single source into a few dozen packages (libraries, headers, |
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tools, plugins...): |
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https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/systemd |
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and that's a small one. I guess we could avoid this if you restricted |
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those remotes to the source package used to build them all. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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