On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, PyroPeter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 12:22 AM, Kaiting Chen wrote: > >> However I really don't like the idea of splitting out -data packages. This >> is basically what Debian does. I remember they would take a single package >> and split it to *-bin, *-libs, *-dev, *-src, *-otherstuff, etc. It's a >> nightmare. --Kaiting. >> > > This actually makes much sense: > > Imagine a game with 2MB of architecture-dependent executables and 2GB of > grafics/sounds. In the repo this will look like this: > > 2GB somegame-i686.pkg.tar.gz > 2GB somegame-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > total: 4GB > > When you split out the data part, it looks like this: > > 2MB somegame-i686.pkg.tar.gz > 2MB somegame-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz > 2GB somegame-data-any.pkg.tar.gz > total: 2.004GB > I know, and in this case it would be fine. Just so long as it doesn't become: 200KB somegame-i686.pkg.tar.gz 200KB somegame-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz total: 400KB 180KB somegame-i686.pkg.tar.gz 180KB somegame-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz 20KB somegame-data-any.pkg.tar.gz total: 380KB Which is the way Debian would do it. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/
