Re: Can I take wml and eperl?
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > I am ambivalent on this one. Currently, the installed size of WML is only
> > 1990 KB, i.e. less than 2 MB. Basically, the ePerl, m4, etc. included in
> > WML are somewhat stripped down already (i.e. no example files, just the
> > executables and the manpages). It might not worth the trouble to split up
> > the package.
>
> Sorry, do you mean that wml contains copies of m4, eperl, txt2html and
> other? If this is the case, they should be removed IMHO and wml should
> depend on the debian packages. 2 MB to download takes 20 minutes for me and
> costs a few buckets.
2 MB is the installed size, i.e. the space that it takes on your
hard drive after unpacking. :) The .deb was about 700 KB?
> I think if it is easy possible, it should be done, because it reduces
> bandwidth. (Note that I don't know if the executables provide the same
> functionality, I'm just guessing).
Christian and Tommi have already convinced me to do so. :) Hehe. BTW, I
am only doing non-maintainer uploads. Tommi will probably take over
eventually, once he gets his Debian developer status, that is. <grin>
The latest wml .deb depends on m4 and eperl. More dependencies and
symlinks will come when we finish packaging other components for Debian.
<grin>
Merry Christmas to you too! :)
Anthony
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