Kevin Horton wrote: > > As a user with three fink installations (one for general use, one to > test packages and one on an original iBook with only a 3 GB hard drive), > I'm certainly interested in keeping the size of the distribution as > small as practical. But any change in policy should probably only be > applied going forward, rather than make maintainers go back and "fix" a > bunch of existing packages.
Of course. Packages that are currently in fink should have the patch sizes examined on the next revision.
I was hoping that the wording I used in packaging.xml would convey the fact that it is not a hard and fast limit of 30K. "If your patch is larger than about 30Kb, you should consider making it a separate download."
Peter -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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