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+ <B>Kira</B>
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+ <I>Tue Oct 26 07:42:46 CEST 2010</I>
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+<PRE>&#22312; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:22:52 +0800, andre999 &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andr55 at laposte.net</A>&gt;&#23531;&#36947;:
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+&gt;<i> I don't quite follow this distinction of programs and packages.
+</I>&gt;<i> A package is a file with installation instructions for a program, or a
+</I>&gt;<i> set of closely related programs. Sometimes a program with many modules
+</I>&gt;<i> is divided into more than one package, but then there are one or more
+</I>&gt;<i> core packages, essential to the installation of the others.
+</I>&gt;<i> So maybe some packages would need minimal documentation since they are
+</I>&gt;<i> dependant on a core package (e.g. OpenOffice).
+</I>&gt;<i> But if considering installing a package containing a number of closely
+</I>&gt;<i> related programs, wouldn't one want all the contained programs to be
+</I>&gt;<i> documented ?
+</I>&gt;<i> Since they would almost necessarily be complementary ?
+</I>&gt;<i> And if you install only one program at a time, essentially you are
+</I>&gt;<i> saying that each package contains exactly one program. So you want 37
+</I>&gt;<i> packages to install Openoffice ? And you want 4 or 5 packages instead
+</I>&gt;<i> of one for the diff (file comparison) utilities ?
+</I>The difference is clear: For most of the time, you would install programs,
+
+not packages. Currently in the RPMDRAKE, libraries are listed,
+localizations
+
+are listed, which is annoying since if you are not programmer, why would
+you
+
+cares about these things? Sure, some would need them for their own purpose,
+
+but most of the time we would only focus on install certain program, not
+
+related libraries/localizations/....etc. They should go into expert mode/
+
+detail mode, not directly exposed to people. This is a usability problem,
+not
+
+about packaging.
+
+
+&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> By the way, if newbies are scared off by packages, why is the Microsoft
+</I>&gt;<i> environment package oriented ?
+</I>&gt;<i> (Even though often a package of numerous programs is referred to as a
+</I>&gt;<i> program.)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>I think you miss-understand my thought. That's something like task package,
+
+which is not what I was talking about. I meant the packages like
+libktorrent,
+
+which is installed together with ktorrent as the backbone library. It's
+listed
+
+in RPMDRAKE, but in what normal condition would you install it solely?
+
+NO. You install KTorrent, not libktorrent. It should be hidden by RPMDRAKE,
+
+unless you check the option to show all packages. Most of the time, you
+won't
+
+care about what packages installed on your system, you cares about what
+
+&quot;softwares&quot; are installed.
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