On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:05:01AM +0100, Michael Neuffer wrote: > Quoting Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com): > > In article <[🔎] 20040216210207.GC1586@tintin> you write: > > >On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:33:23AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> > > >> Yes, good point. I'll make sure to check if the packages I'm looking > > >> at are in woody before posting bugs. > > > > > >I think that you should also check that they are not single-arch (such > > >as eagle), as splitting such packages would only bloat the Packages file > > >with no gain for the mirrors. > > > > So why is Eagle a large i386-only package with i386 binaries in > > /usr/share? This is ridiculous - surely that's a bug in and of itself! > Pehaps because you might want to share /usr/share or at least parts of that > amongst several machines in a network ? Or not. This is a null argument, it's no more difficult to share such files when they're in their *proper* location than it is when they're in /usr/share. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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