Subject: Re: echoping: New upstream release (but not obvious to package)
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 04/02/2007 17:37:42
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:24:23 +0200
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:53:51PM -0400,
> Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote
> a message of 30 lines which said:
>
> > Generally, plug-ins are separate packages that depend on the base
> > package.
>
> Isn't one package per plugin too much? echoping plugins are quite
> small.
>
I'd like options, personally, but then you can't have precompiled
binaries.
Perhaps one package for many plugins, though ones with major
dependencies should be separate.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb