On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: > The doublecmd-help package [1] of Graham Inggs (who I sponsor a lot), > is currently building three packages. One package per language that is > provided by upstream. These packages together add up to 12MB, about > 4MB per package. Now, if I were a user of one of these packages I > would appreciate the languages being separated (which means less HD > space), but as a non-user of the package, it just adds two additional > packages. So where would a reasonable size limit be?
I would think that anything that saves close to 10M of disk space is definitely reasonable; more if the package is infrequently installed, less if it's frequently installed.[1] [I don't know how frequently this package is used; your and Graham's judgement is probably superior to mine in this regard.] Others may have slightly different ideas. > The other discussion is indeed about packages that are usually found > together, but also the installed size is ~200MB, so splitting up for > people that don't need all components could save significant space. Right. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. -- Douglas Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
