| Andreas Rottmann 2005-03-19, 8:51 pm |
| Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:13:07AM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
>
> Also it is an example of ridiculously large source packages, which
> create other problems by themself like the amount of bandwidth wasted
> when one has to apply a one-line fix, in particular for security updates.
>
> Why not considering splitting those source packages? IIRC, this is
> planned for the X11 source packages. This seems a better option overall.
>
GNOME is already comprised of many source packages. I guess KDE is a
bigger problem, as it seems to have less and bigger source packages
and is C++, which is considerably more expensive to compile than C.
Rotty
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