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
