Re: Dictionary Packages
Am 12.04.98 schrieb hilliard # flinet.com ...
Moin Bob!
BH> provides the source for the client/server software. These
BH> dictionaries total about 32 mb in compressed form. Two of them, which
BH> amount to about 24 mb, are essential for a satisfactory server, but it
BH> would be highly desirable to have all installed.
BH> Is there any policy regarding large text packages? I can not
No, there isn#t.
BH> find anything on this subject in the Policy Manual, but I remember
BH> that Ian Jackson has expressed his disapproval of large text packages
BH> that are not documentation. One person has suggested to me that
Well, maybe we should remove emacs :)?
BH> introducing such bloat into the distribution would be undesirable.
I don#t see a problem with the size of the package.
BH> could make installer packages to format and install the tarballs that
BH> are available for anonymous ftp from the Dict Group's site.
Please, don#t make installer packages. A lot of users don#t have FTP
access and it#s very expensive downloading such big packages. I would
prefer it on the Debian CDs.
BH> archive by about 60 mb, including source, but it would penalize those
BH> users who have slow or no net access, or who exorbitant telephone and
BH> Internet access rates.
Like in Germany, right :(.
BH> of packaging these dictionaries. Is this a subject that should be
BH> raised on policy?
I think that the size of package is not a problem of the policy.
cu, Marco
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