[csw-maintainers] Handling of devel package splits

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 01.10.2009 um 18:29 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>
>> The entire package, if it were one package, is 155k for sparc, and 88k for
>> x86.
>> The "devel" package, is 5k. yes, 5830 bytes.
>
> I specifically didn't do it for size, but for clearness and consistency. And
> I think the tradeoff of having a clean split against one more package is
>  IMHO worthwhile.

And I understand that point. My own opinion, is that fewer packages, makes
for better "clearness" for our users, when there isnt a noticable benefit from
splitting them up into mulitple.
I cant see us ever splitting ALL our packages up into
CSWmain  vs CSWmain-doc

While it would be "consistent", it would also be insane overkill, in
my opinion :)
So for similar reasoning, I dont think we should split up ALL packages to be
CSWmain vs CSWmain-devel

Just in the cases where there is actual benefit.