On 24-04-14 20:41, Don Armstrong wrote: > The cases where you should split are generally really obvious; if it's > not clear, ask here or in #debian-mentors, and you'll get some > reasonable advice. Ok, so let me show one of the two issues I have at hand (the other is currently being discussed on pkg-pascal-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org). The doublecmd-help package [1] of Graham Inggs (who I sponsor a lot), is currently building three packages. One package per language that is provided by upstream. These packages together add up to 12MB, about 4MB per package. Now, if I were a user of one of these packages I would appreciate the languages being separated (which means less HD space), but as a non-user of the package, it just adds two additional packages. So where would a reasonable size limit be? The other discussion is indeed about packages that are usually found together, but also the installed size is ~200MB, so splitting up for people that don't need all components could save significant space. Paul [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/doublecmd-help.html PS: I assume Graham is still on this list. I am not trying to hide this from him.
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