Peter Tribble wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 16:26, Martin Man wrote: >> splitting into -devel is good IMHO, because >> >> 1) users don't need gcc and header files and static libs >> 2) developers can always install them >> 3) it saves space, and yes, space is still important as it was before >> even if we have bigger drives and more memory -> think Java vs. flash, >> or Linux live distro on USB flash drive > > So don't install the gcc package. There aren't static libs (although > I think we still have some lint libraries that are quite big), and > headers are generally small compared to the app itself.
I hope the fact that solaris does not have static libs does not invalidate my comment about granularity of the packages and package splitting, another example could be apache and apache-doc. And I think we can agree on the fact that you don't need apache-doc installed on a cluster of production webservers. > Besides, I feel that if you want to customise at that level, asking > the package system to do the work for you is doing it wrong. If the package system is the one wrong to ask, whom should I ask then to do the customization? Are you suggesting that if I want to make a small solaris distro that I should delete unnecessary files manually? thanx, Martin
