[fpc-pascal] FPC 2.4.2 source

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Sat May 21 12:59:30 CEST 2011


On 21 May 2011, at 12:54, Bernd Kreuss wrote:

> There exists a debian policy to split a large package into some randomly
> chosen smaller ones although *none* of them can ever be used
> individually without *all* others?

It's not true that none of them can be used without all others. And afaik the main reason for the split is because of dependencies. They don't want to force everyone to install firebird, mysql, postgresql, ptcgraph, gtk, gtk2, qt and every other single thing for which FPC has bindings. On the other hand, they want to ensure that when someone installs those FPC bindings, that the package these bindings are for also gets installed.


Jonas


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