Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies
George Danchev writes:
> Tony Houghton writes:
> > On Sun, 16 May 2010 19:38:59 +0300
> >
> > George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> wrote:
> > > Also, it seems to me that build-depending on xsltproc && docbook-xsl &&
> > > docbook-xml would not extremely trim the bits to be pulled as compared
> > > to those pulled in the xmlto case, so don't expect big wins here ;-)
> >
> > AFAICT the above trio don't depend on the (la)tex packages that xmlto
> > does, and they take a long time to install.
>
> Well, xmlto does not pull any latex packages AFAICS, and my cowbuilder
> --login test says dice wrt build-dependencies drag:
>
> # apt-get install xmlto
> Need to get 468kB/3592kB of archives.
> After this operation, 20.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
>
> # apt-get install xsltproc docbook-xsl docbook-xml
> Need to get 345kB/3469kB of archives.
> After this operation, 20.1MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
>
> Both approaches would do, imho.
A slight correction: my main system's apt cache /var/cache/apt/archives/
wasn't perfectly clean, however the drag it is still 3592kB (xmlto) vs.3469kB
(trio).
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