On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 15:01 -0600, Richi Plana wrote: > Read the thread I started entitled "Goal: Increased Modularity". People > are saying that Fedora is aimed at distro-makers who want to create > spins of their own from Fedora. This is only possible if it actually CAN > be broken down into the pieces that you want. Currently, there are no > policies which even mention modularity, but most of the developers have > come to the same conclusion. There's a faction which believe that it's > easier to maintain something when they're all lumped together. Then > there are those who believe it's easier for individual volunteers to > maintain packages if they're cut down to smaller pieces. Lumping multiple separately versioned, separately released entities into the same SRPM is broken, period. If upstream is lumping a ton of stuff into one tarball, its an upstream bug.
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