On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Rob Deker wrote:

> I don't know. I personally don't like monolithic packages. It makes life fo
> those with limited disk space nasty. If I want to get a copy of something like
> top, and all I want is top, I dont' want to have to rm hundreds of megs of
> other cruft to get it....

That's fine. I didn't say we should have only monolithic packages.
But if we've got a 150 applications to deal with anyway, it's not
much more work to create a few jumbo-packs so that someone with a
lot of disk space who wants everything to play with doesn't have
to spend a couple of hours installing individual packages.

I'd anticipate having a couple of different jumbo-packs, actually.
An `essentials' one with ssh, perl, pine, emacs, top, etc., and a
`servers' one with postgres, apache, and so on. There might be
other categories, too.

cjs

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