[Gambas-user] Gambas 1.9.24 package for Ubuntu 5.10

[Rob Kudla]

On Mon February 6 2006 08:40, Daniel Campos wrote:
> Having just a big package prevents people  from download
> what they need
> without bloat.  For people who  need the complete environment,
> is just matter of creating a virtual package, for example
> called 'gambas' which installs all the rest of packages. That
> way people can choose the two ways.

In the days following 1.0 (before Mandrake included Gambas 
packages in contrib) lots of people who didn't know how to add 
package sources or use the command line would ask me for a 
single gigantic RPM of Gambas so they didn't have to click on 18 
different files to download them.  So I made a package called 
"gambas-complete" that included the files from all the other 
packages.

I stopped building that package last spring, and haven't gotten 
any complaints, so I guess it's just a matter of getting all 
those little packages into each distribution's official 
repositories.  

I agree that all the little packages are they way to go - that's 
the only way I was able to get Gambas installed on gambasdoc.org 
which has no KDE, Postgres or SDL ;)

Rob