Marcelo Ricardo Leitner schreef op wo 02-12-2020 om 17:11 [-0300]:
Maybe, then taking it to the extreme, less common modules can all
have its
own rpm package ;-)
Vague ideas like this crossed my mind too.
The local build I just finished for v5.9.12 generated less than 4000 modules.
Currently there seem to be over 6000 texlive packages. (Quick and dirty
measurements, sorry.) So splitting the kernel into an absurd number of
packages for (obscure) modules isn't a no-no on principle.
(See
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FedoraTexliveFailure for
an eloquent argument how reasonable decisions can lead to unreasonable
outcomes in the case of Fedora's handling of texlive packages. Note that my
laptop has currently one texlive package installed. Does that benefit me more
than the overhead of its gazillion packages at each dnf interaction?)
Thanks,
Paul Bolle