Huge OO.org packages installed by default

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:46 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah a quick check of the mirros shows Mandrake have been splitting it 
> into language packages since it first appeared in the main repoisitory 
> in 9.2 (Oct 2003).
Well .. OK, I won't get in to political distro discussions ... however;
CentOS is cloning this condition very well ... and did I mention that
CentOS is free :)
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