Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2015-09-15 09:27:59) > 2015-09-15 9:05 GMT+02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) > <[email protected]>: > > On 2015-09-15 00:20, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > >> 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. > > > > how about splitting into multiple binary packages of reasonable size > > and content? > > i guess a single-package per drumkit is overkill; but probably > > grouping the kits by vendor (e.g. "hydrogen-drumkits-roland") or > > function (e.g. "hydrogen-drumkits-acoustic") will help people select > > only the drumkits they need. > > That's not bad idea. But I also think to safe packager's load ;) > As I have long list of packages to maintain and there are often lack > man power in team I tend minimize packaging work. > > What about ask upstream to include 2 demo_songs and 2 drumkits in hydrogen? > Then provide hydrogen-data package with this "songs and drumkits" > and add link for downloading other files in description of package. > > Hopefully simple for user and easy to maintain
If you mean encourage upstream to offer out-of-band download and then _not_ package those drumkits for Debian to "safe packager's load" then I find that a very bad idea: Our users should be able to use our package management system APT to install and keep up-todate their code, not do custom house-keeping for drumkits - see e.g. how optional GIMP palettes is shipped as gimp-data-extras (not a URL referenced in a README or a script fetching from such URL). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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