On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote:On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote:- Some packages are just too large and obscure. For instance, if I were to do a 5 piece endgame tablebase package for crafty (which
I haven't done yet), we're talking 6G of disk space, and even the partial 6 piece tablebases are more than that. These packages
are not frivolous at all, but only a handful of people are going to be interested.
The source tarball is 6 gigs??
Yes. The "source" in this case represents a product of months of computation which would be entirely infeasible to do on the client side.
So, why is there a fink package for such a thing, if i may ask? Do other packaging systems have one?
As I wrote above, I haven't done 5 and 6 piece databases yet. If you're a chess aficionado and have a few gigs to spare, these databases are very valuable as they let you study endgame positions with perfect knowledge (they also boost the strength of the chess program massively, as they allow perfect evaluation of leaf nodes at a much earlier point in the game). Setting them up manually is not horribly difficult, but having a package is much more convenient (An analogous package that is quite large and has relatively simple installation instructions is tetex-texmf).
Matthias
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