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DJ Delorie wrote: > Well, my experience is from Fedora, perhaps it has different rules. I have to say that I have not been particularly impressed by Fedora over the years, both as an upstream maintainer and as casual observer on the downstream user side. They are not so much about good structure or doing the right thing but more about high throughput and fast roll-out of Red Hat's paying projects. Another example of modularization that comes to mind is Apache modules. I think even Fedora manages to package those individually. :) > > do you have anything against it? > > I'm not trying to discourage you, just mentioning that my experience > with Fedora leads me to expect an all-or-nothing packaging approach. I think that's being too conservative. Packaging is done by humans who (as it seems) actually want to be doing something else, so one way to preempt an all-or-nothing packaging situation is to write the modular packages *for them*. As always, if we write it ourselves, chances are much higher that we get what we want in the end. Fortunately there are only a handful of packaging formats that we would need to deal with. //Peter
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