Re: Wasteful packaging
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:21:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> sledge:~/debian/evolution$ du -s usr/*
> 3660 usr/bin
> 6656 usr/lib
> 12 usr/sbin
> 14548 usr/share
>
> Over half of the installed package is made up of stuff in /usr/share,
> i.e. common arch-independent stuff like images, templates and i18n
> data. A quick check of other packages suggests that similar metrics
> apply for gnumeric, gnome-applets2, konqueror, ...
>
> We _really_ should be packaging things like this better - the common
> stuff should go into binary-all packages with appropriate
> dependencies!
>
> Comments?
>
Agreed.
Stuff the arch-indep stuff in an Architecture: all package, and watch the
evolution package shrink from 9Mb to 3.
--
Steve
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