Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Saturday 21 July 2007, Daniel Leidert wrote:
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> > Or, alternatively, create an emboss-manpages package (arch: all) to
> > Depend on (as I already stated).
>
> Where is the advantage of such an effort? There is none. You would have
> to install two packages instead of simply one and you don't save any
> space nor bandwith. IMHO shipping manpages and programs separately but
> depend on each other is a senseless effort. But that's of course my
> personal opinion.

Of course, this saves space at mirror's side, since large arch independent 
data are to be found only once in the archive, rather placed in each arch 
dependent part.

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