On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:57:12PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> 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.
Whether it's a bug or not, it sounds like the situation could be
improved. Can you file a bug report?
