Re: why bloated packages are bad (a case for splitting up large packages)

Hi Benjamin Muskalla! On 08/15/05 05:56 you wrote: > I think a good way to avoid these depencies would be a system like the > gentoo portage system. When you install a package, you can set serveral > USE flags..it's like the configure-options. <snip title="portage introduction" /> > I think thats a good idea but hard work :/ There is no need to invent something like that. PEAR 1.4 supports optional dependencies nicely and you can install certain features (or groups of features or all features,...) with a simple command. Cheers! Toby -- Tobias Schlitt - Zend Certified Engineer GPG Key: 0xA6529579 a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info Like to say "thank you"? - http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/toby