Re: On Debian and Fedora experiences

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:51:26AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> A far better solution is to split the libraries that would use say aalib into 
> a subpackage so that you can install the base package without needing aalib, 
> and choose to install the subpackage that might pull in the aalib dep.  The 
> OLPC project has helped to identify a lot of these scenarios and to split out 
> functionality as such.

Or not. This may be useful for OLPC, but aalib is, what, 164k? Is that
really worth the overhead of a zillion more subpackages?

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