> As for the small package size, if it is that important we could create 
> seperate packages with info documentation. What do you think?

I usually don't participate in these discussions because they happen every
couple months, but I've outlined problems with generating multiple package
files from a single PKGBUILD.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/2831/match=multiple+package+single+pkgbuild

That's the best reference I can find with just a cursory search.

Now, there were patches that I wrote for gensync that let it generate
repositories from package files instead of PKGBUILDs.  It was never
accepted, but it would have gotten around a lot of the one PKGBUILD, one
package problems.

Then again srcpac, makepkg, checkpkg, extra/current/testing/unstablepkg,
and makeworld would all have to be updated.  As would the software we use
for archlinux.org and the AUR.

Cover all those cases and I'd be a lot more interested.

Now if you're talking about documentation like qt-doc, then that's a little
more reasonable.  Except that you have, worst case, twice as many packages
to maintain.

Jason

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