Re: l18n?

[Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.news@free.fr>]

Le 13/04/12 16:54, Olе Streicher a écrit :
> Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.news@free.fr> writes:
>> At most, I would split the package in an arch-dependent and an
>> arch-independent package, and that's assuming ds9 has even more arch
>> indep data than just those messages (say, if the data reaches ~2MB).
> 
> In my case, the architecture independent data (in /usr/share) are really
> quite large: ~10 MB. However, most of this (~ 7MB) goes into the html
> help (containing many images --> bad compression), which is more-or-less
> indepenendent of the package itself. Therefore, I am planning to
> separate the documentation into a saods9-doc package and make the saods9
> package dependend on the -doc. 
> 
> Would this be reasonable? I would allow a (usable) installation of the
> documentation without the need to install the whole package (and its
> dependency nightmare) - for whatever reason one would need this.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ole
> 
> 

Hi,

So you have :

- 7MB documentation;
- 3MB other ach-indep data;
- some arch-dep data (the amount is not much relevant :-) )

Is the doc necessary for reliable use of the package, or is is just that
you get an error message when clicking Help->User Manual?

If it makes sense to not install the documentation, I would split in three:

- ds9, depends on ds9-data, suggests (or recommends) ds9-doc;
- ds9-data, recommends ds9 (contains the 3MB of share data);
- ds9-doc, suggests ds9 (contains the 7MB of help).

If you cannot run ds9 without the help, that makes the doc effectively
application data and I would split in two:

- ds9, depends on ds9-data
- ds9-data, recommends ds9 (10MB).


Best regards, Thibaut.