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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl AT gmail.com>:
> The biggest problem, IMHO.
>
> My proposal, i know that many would not like this, but i see no other
> ways. Let's make our stable grimoire smaller, say ~1000 spells or even
> smaller. Thus we can cut down resources needed to run prometheus and
> fix bugs and prepare better release. Something like "core" and
> "extras" in Fedora. For ex. we can include the following:
>
> DE, WM: xfce, fluxbox, ion3 (no KDE, no GNOME)
> Web: firefox, dillo, elinks
> Mail: thunderbird, claws, mutt, fetchmail, getmail, procmail
> Audio: quodlibet, mpd, various mpd clients
> Video: xine, mplayer
> IM: gaim, gajim, psi
> Web servers: apache, lighttpd
> MTA: postfix, exim
> POP, IMAP servers: dbmail, dovecot
> FTP servers: vsftpd, pureftpd
> etc...
>
> I mean for each task or set of tasks we can choose 1-3 _best_ software
> packages, make good spells, test them, release them and finally
> support them.
> For everything else we can create special, community maintained
> "extras" grimoire, similar to arch's AUR [0]
>
> So what do you think about it? If someone has another proposals on
> this topic pleae post it here, we need it!
>
> [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/

IMO that's not fixing the problem, but rather moving it out of site.  
We'll still have those bugs, just in grimoire "xyz' rather than the  
'main' grimoire. I don't see splitting up the grimoires any further as  
being productive, but rather time should be spent on fixing the  
current bugs (we've had close to this many bugs before and brought it  
down in a short while) rather than finding ways to make our count look  
smaller, while still remaining the same.

Keep in mind that splitting the grimoires will add more of a headache  
to having global files (e.g. KDE_DEPENDS), keeping those files in  
sync, integrating between grimoires, and cross-grimoire dependencies.

-sandalle

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http://eric.sandall.us/             |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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