Re: modularize pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> schrieb:
> > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I'm going to modularize the fat pango package - split it
> > > into separate packages, one per module.
> >
> > If Pango is fat, what is Firefox or OpenOffice.org then? :)
>
> Even fatter ?

What do you mean really?  You should be joking.
Have you even looked at the Pango source code?


> > How do you want to split it into separate packages?  That's
> > really a packaging issue best dealt with distros.
>
> Well, I actually dont have any distro. I'm building evrything
> from scratch up.
>
> The problem is:
>
> I need to configure my systems as small as possible. Okay, I could
> throw out evrything I think I don't need. But how to I know what
> is really needed ? If we've split it into separate modules, then
> the buildsystem will know - a simple pkg-config query would be
> enough for most cases.

So what?  You can disable all modules during compilation.  And
even if your argument was valid, there are too many more people
that prefer Pango as a single package.  There's not much reason
to continue this thread really.

> cu

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