On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:39:31PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:05:44 +0100 > Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > End-users also expect a package install not to drag in packages that > > are not useful. Especially system administrator end-users who care > > about avoiding bloat. Installing everything may be confusing too, not > > for a user who just don't care about what is installed on his > > computer but for a user who want to keep control. > > > The problem is that "not useful" is subjective, extremely so. Since we > don't have smolt sending brainwave signatures so that we can tap in and > determine what you really need at install time, we make "best guesses" > and err on the side of usability rather than the alternatives where you > have to constantly play the game of "oh, you want to do /that/ with > your app, you need to install this subpackage, that subpackage, this > other seemingly unrelated package, and that over there too." I am not saying that we want fine grained split for every package, I say that it has merits in term of avoiding bloat. And also that there are may categories of end-users, some that want to avoid selecting packages, other who prefer selecting packages. And that in the end it is up to the packager. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
