Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting
On 2011-02-04 07:27, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 2011-02-03, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de> wrote:
> > * Leaf packages. that is, the possibility of having small packages in
> > the archive, without bloating the packages files as a "full package"
> > would. Somehow, less information stored for them. Like only "Package",
> > "Installed-Size", "Version", "FileName", "Size", "Sha1Sum" and one new
> > "mainpackage:" which is simply the package name of the "full
> > package". maybe a one-line description entry, but thats it.
> >
> > Tools like apt then take all the other missing information, including
> > the long desc, from the mainpackage, and voila we get the possibility
> > to have something like foo-config-blabla and foo-config-blubber
> > without much bloat. (this will need design work done now but we won't
> > be able to use it before wheezy or wheezy+1)
>
> Which would mean stripping Depends and doing indirection. What about,
> instead, dropping two of the checksums and refering to the Description
> in another file which is planned for translations of them anyway?
> (I.e. refer by hash.)
++. I don't think indirection is a good idea, it makes indexing and,
say, grepping, much harder. Also, different flavours of the same package
quite often have a bit different Depends.
I would prefer dropping only one hashsum (of 3) though.
> Would that already help quite a bit? The description and the hashsums
> probably contain a tad more entropy than the other bits and could
> already help quite a bit.
++
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