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Re: packaging question



On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:22:35PM -0600, Gary Kramlich wrote:
[...]
> > And I actively watch the gaim, since I sending
> > patches in and such.  That's why I don't see it as a bad thing as adding
> > the source to my package.
> 
> Still, a -dev package is a better option:
>
[...]
> 
> * There is no code duplicated in multiple packages, thus precious
>   diskspace is saved on our mirrors (talk to a mirror admin sometime).
> 

Absolutly. It's not only the disk space, but the bandwidth needed to
download the extra data.

Neil
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