On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:21:15PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Thu Jul 16 11:51:57 -0400 2009: > > > Reducing the payload is not, in my opinion, a sufficient reason. > > I thought that payload reduction in addition to a standard method for > packaging was a good enough win.
It should be mentioned that it can be a significant "payload reduction". or.. erm.. it was in the case of python. Ben, why dont you give a specific example of just how much space is saved? Or, contrariwise, we may indeed want to only distribute the compiled stuff and have separate src packages, as you say. > I prefer to have the .el version around for reading, but that's partly > due to me being a relatively new emacs user and wanting to see how > things are done. dont forget to mention/compare how debian and other distros do it. not that we HAVE to do it the same way, but it's nice to have the reference. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
