2015-09-15 0:32 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: > Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-15 00:20:54) >> 2015-09-14 23:58 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]>: >>> Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-14 23:09:20) >>>> I jumped in to updating hydrogen-drumkits package ... I updated it >>>> and realize that it is really huge! :( ... About 250MB >>>> I think something so big doesn't make sense distribute in debian. >>>> >>>> What we should do with it? >>>> >>>> 1) Ask the upstream to make just "basic" collection of drumkits ( >>>> e.g. about 20MB ) package it and let users download whatever they >>>> want from internet? >>>> >>>> 2) Create package which wouldn't contain drumkits itselfs but only >>>> script for downloading and installing drumkits? >>>> >>>> 3) Other solution? >>> >>> Would be nice to ask upstream if possible to _also_ provide a smaller >>> subset, but 250MB is not strictly too big - see e.g. >>> alien-arena-data. >> >> Yes but latest debian release from 2007 30MB now in 2015 250MB I am >> assuming that size still can rise in future. >> Also I believe that usually user using just couple of favorite >> drumkits and not need all of of them maybe. >> So I am thinking to safe user disk space too. > > Seems we agree.
Yes, but before taking any action I would like to hear from Alessio (current hydrogen-drumkits uploader) too. mira _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
