Guidelines for creating subpackages?

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 10:28:25 UTC 2007


On 02/12/2007, Joachim Frieben <jfrieben at gmx.de> wrote:
> Finally, the case of the plplot package shows that my initial request
> is by no means exotic, and I maintain my point that it would be sign
> of userfriendliness not to impose unneeded packages like the ones
> enumerated above on a user of the vtk package.

The point remains though: no matter what side of the fence you sit on
regarding greater package granularity, I think Tom is bang on the
money - crafting a guideline to fit the broad and diverse range of
upstream packages in order to achieve your desired goal seems
impossible to me. Arguing over the merits or otherwise of increasing
the packaging granularity isn't going to change anything. If you
really believe this is an important and required change, try drafting
the guideline.




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