Am 16.09.2016 um 16:49 schrieb ng0:
> They are not separated
> like for example Debian does it with their -dev version packages.
> For the exact reasons someone else has to explain. I guess it's
> something about grafting, reproducibility, source provision etc.
This is what the docs say about this;
Sometimes it is more appropriate to separate the various types of files
produced from a single source package into separate outputs. For
instance, the GLib C library (used by GTK+ and related packages)
installs more than 20 MiB of reference documentation as HTML pages.
To *save space* for users who do not need it, the documentation goes
to a
separate output, called @code{doc}. [...]
Some packages install programs with different ``dependency footprints''.
[…] This allows users
who do not need the GUIs to *save space*. […]
For me this sound more like a bug. But maybe someone can explain this.
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