[csw-maintainers] netsnmp package, policy question

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:28:18PM +0100, Roger HÃ¥kansson wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
>> depends. If they are useless without the main package, then may as well 
>> keep them in
>> the main package.
>>
>> Unless they are very bulky, in which case, splitting them out would be nice
>> for those people who dont need it, but do need the main package.
>
>
> The perl stuff consists of 9 .pm files, 14 .bs/.ix files and 7 .so files  
> linked to libraries in the main package, totally 30 files and 464k
>....
> The main package consists of 560 files (including perl and python  
> files), totally 9160k

I would say:
If the perl stuff can stand on its own, split it out. 
If it depends on "the main package" to function, then compared to the size
  of the main package, it's not that significant.