Huge OO.org packages installed by default

[rodrigob at suespammers.org (Rodrigo Barbosa)]

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:49:41PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > > 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 :)

Well, I think the fact that I was part of this discussion back then,
and I'm using CentOS now, shows where I stand.

Yes, I would love to see more package granularity on CentOS. But all things
considered, I like CentOS better.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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