Re: Package splitting
I think one obvious line of pursuit would be to maintain the locale
information in compressed form until it is actually needed, and then cache
the uncompressed form somehow. This is how man pages work, for example.
Probably 98% of accesses to locale information go through the C lib?
-- Mike
On 2000-05-17 at 15:33 -0000, Juho =?iso-8859-1?Q?Östman?= wrote:
> Do you agree that some packages have become too large?
> The first I really noticed was locales but there are more examples
> like the emacs packages.
>
> The package locales takes about 2 MB in a package and 11 MB uncompressed.
> It contains
> dozens of different locales but most people use only one of them. I think
> something should
> be done.
>
> I don't know if it's completely too difficult to keep every main locale
> (en_*, de_* etc.) in its own
> package. I think that would be the best solution.
> If it is impossible could a possible solution be splitting the package
> continentally?
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