why 100 packages are evil

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at orthanc.ca
Sat Apr 23 03:41:13 UTC 2016


> Same as it is now for releases.  Packages will be available for SAs/ENs.
> There is no intention to change this model.

I get that. But the dependency base will be huge. Right now I can count on 
a very limited set of dependencies for anything I ship as a 3rd party 
package.  Doing that for n>100 packages gets to be troubling.  I know it 
can be done, but for a small company like the one I work for, it quickly 
becomes impractical.



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