On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote: > On Monday, 3. September 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote: > > > Does anybody know if the licenses package had a space > > saving effect on the media? > > Well, the GPL roughly takes 3kb of space per rpm on the media. out of a > default KDE installation, exactly 256 packages ship a copy of GPL, eating > roughly 768kb of space on the media. > > the licenses packages is 432kb in size. So assuming that all those 256 > packages would be fixed (noone fixes them currently, not even all the yast2 > packages which contain COPYING twice are fixed even though I filed a > bugreport a couple of months ago), we could save 336kb of space. > > thats not an awful lot, given that we have packages on the CD where we could > save 5MB with a blink of an eye.
Note that at the moment we ship a lot of packages without any license in (one of) the RPM(s) at all. Which is worse(?), so I don't see a problem but a chance in the license package to fix this issue as well. Richard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
