[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs dialog

[Peter FELECAN]

Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Philip Brown <phil at opencsw.org> writes:
>>
>>> Well, we do know for a fact that some of our "customers" do care about
>>> size of packages, and needless downloads.
>>
>> Can you give some examples of "customers" caring for that?
>>
>
> Customers have previously filed bug reports, and emailed complaints,
> about certain packages having needless dependancies and thus forcing
> download of more than they need/want.
> Sorry I dont have a convenient reference for this.
> You can also consider googling for comments about why some people
> didnt like blastwave packaging. One of the complaints people blogged
> about, was because it duplicated packages already present in solaris.
> I dont think that attitude has suddenly changed either.

That I know but it's not the same thing. Duplication of packages is not
the same issue that we discuss, which is payload size. Consequently, for
me, it's not a good example.
-- 
Peter