[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#469732: Bug#469732: libglpk0: excessive install dependencies

[Falk Hueffner]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:39:34PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> You are absolutely right.  I will consider producing two independent library
> packages, one with MathPROG support and the other without.  I do not know
> whether this will be possible, though.  In case it is possible, which naming
> scheme would you suggested?  We could have:
> 
>                 with MathPROG        without MathPROG
> 1st option      libglpk0             libglpk-light0
> 2nd option      libglpk-mathprog0    libglpk0
> 
> Which would be better?

Just for the record, I don't think this is a good idea. It makes the
package more complicated, users have to waste time with checking out
what they need, while 99.99% will not care about 5M of disk space that
cost about 0.1 cent.

     Falk