[1748] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Meeting Minutes or 7/28/97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Ucko)
Fri Aug 8 14:52:42 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Aaron Ucko <amu@MIT.EDU>
Date: 08 Aug 1997 13:50:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of Fri, 08 Aug 1997 13:38:57 EDT
Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu> writes:
> > * amu talked about the classification of programs. He sent out
> > some mail about his new package setup. The dependencies are more
> > logical in the new setup (separating client from server, for
> > example).
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I have very little direct interest in how the Linux-0Athena install
> works, but I don't see what separating clients from servers has to do
> with making "dependencies more logical." At a less nitpicky level, I
> think it's a mistake to go in the direction of finer package
> granularity when disk space is rapidly becoming a non-issue for your
> users.
For instance, ktelnetd depends on ttylogin, but ktelnet doesn't and
shouldn't. Some users only want a specific part of Linux-Athena, so
splitting packages helps them and doesn't really hurt anyone else.
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