On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:19:25PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
> Slackware is maintained by 3 core people with extra help as needed. The rest of the packages are pushed by the community at large contributing. Devuan doesn't have to maintain every package possible. That's ludicrous to think so.
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> Debian got in over its head by allowing this. Thousands upon thousands of packages that required a committee to oversee.
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> Honestly, what is needed by a distribution? Look at Slackware or BLFS that's a lot of packages, but it's manageable by a small team. Why can't Devuan follow suit? There doesn't need to be a bagillion packages maintained by the main devs. If the rest need to be passed back to the community at large, then do it. This also hits the point of why do we need 5 different for things like, for example, SDL packages for -bin, -lib, -doc, -dev, -src, and such? One package is easier to maintain than five individual ones. It lightens the load significantly, especially for the poor soul having to make 5 or more different scripts for 5 packages from the same source tarball. Yes, it's nice to have small packages for embedded stuff and small disks, but do you really want to raise the workload of the maintainer that much?

It would also be folly to increase the maintainers load by naing him
reunite those multiple binary packages that are prooduced from one
source package. We don't have the manpower for that economy!

-- hendrik