# Define-attributes macro, is this useful, ideas for improvements?

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**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/define-attributes-macro-is-this-useful-ideas-for-improvements/300 "2021-11-29T08:18:17Z")\
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yes, but this reactivates an issue for me about single package vs split packages.

I think I will create a separate topic about that.

> [@Single Package vs Multiple (-lib -doc -test) & Convenience](https://racket.discourse.group/t/single-package-vs-multiple-lib-doc-test-convenience/693):
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> Convenience Authoring vs Using Packages When I author a simple package with only a little bit of functionality, I really like the convenience of creating a single package and putting everything inside it. When I want to use a simple package I prefer if it is split up into (-lib -doc -test) because that allows me to depend only on the -lib part of the package and thus avoid slow installation because for example the docs are unnecessarily built for that dependency. These opposing "forces of conv…

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