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On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> As far as I know, nobody is taking the source code or the Makefiles
> away, so if somebody doesn't like the system being distributed with
> pkg, they can very well roll their own.

True enough.  But I am also wary of decending into what became of X, where 
a build of the xorg metapackage spends 80% of its time running configure, 
over and over and over again.  How long until a source build becomes a 
series of 'rpmbuild ...' equivalents?  Sadly, if this level of fine 
grained packaging infects the base, it *will* only be a matter of time ...

So no matter what the good intentions, this is going to impact everyone, 
like it or not.

--lyndon