Re: Generally accepted cut-off limit for -doc packages
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 09:25:32AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
>
> > On Monday 05 May 2003 16:02, David B Harris wrote:
> >
> > Also important: 500k in a 10M package will not really matter. 500k docs
> > for a 40k library will matter.
>
> This would support the idea of a relative definition of "large amounts".
But there would still need to be an absolute cutoff. It would make no
sense to separate out 10k of docs from a 1k package. The savings wouldn't
come close to justifying the cost of downloading the extra package
description every time you run apt-get update, not to mention the
user-interface cost.
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David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org
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