On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:03:03AM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:17:52PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > > > The argument is that in case of a wantlib change (e.g. libc bump), 
> > > > you'll only have to download the small -main package, no all the -data.
> > > 
> > > imo that is micro-optimization at the wrong level.  we increase complexity
> > > for absolutely no real gain.
> > 
> > Can other porters please give their opinion. Stuart and I would like to 
> > have some consensus over this.
> 
> I'm in favor of -data packages where they are only used once for runtime
> paks.  Games are the obvious example, I can't think of anything else.

Given that the two biggest packages i have in my local tree are
lincity-ng and wormux, which could probably be easily splitted in
subpackages, i agree too.

Landry

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