Philippe Michel <[email protected]> writes: > I'm new to Debian and didn't know of this feature. Prompting is indeed > set to high but this is the default.
Oh, hm, I think I didn't realize that because I always set mine lower. More of a reason to just go ahead and generate by default. > If the alternative is no database at all, I think the prompt level > should be raised to have the question asked with the default debconf > setting (and the user somehow goaded into creating the database :-). It's much easier to just change the default from false to true, which I think will make the whole problem go away. > I'm surprised you find the default gnubg_ts0.bd "extremely large", > though. It's 6M (if compressed) when the current gnubg-data package is > about 11M, most of it documentation rather than data used by the > software. More than half the size of the whole package is extremely large! Okay, maybe not extremely. But that's still pretty big, and I was worried that people on slow connections would find it irritating to download, since it usually takes less than a minute to generate it. That said, back when I made that decision (a *long* time ago), the docs weren't nearly as large. > If size really matters, why not split this into gnubg-doc and gnubg-data, > the latter including ts0.bd and being a prerequisite contrary to the > former. It would be nice to make the docs smaller, but that's a problem for another day. The problem is mostly the PDF files, and I'm not sure really how useful they are for people. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
