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Re: Policy, location of .cma files in binary packages, and dynlink...



On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 06:59:30PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote:
> > Do we have some statistics about the size of each of these packages ? If
> > the size is not such an impact, we can just drop the -dev version.
> +1 
>
> As a simple user, it is always cumbersome to look for and install a new
> package only for a few files.

I understand this, but as distribution editors factorizing out common
part is what we are usually most concerned about. But I agree that some
stats would be nice, any taker? :-)

Still, the idea of having to install on my system stuff like HTML API
reference of a library to be able to dynamically load bytecode objects
does not make me thaaaaaat happy.

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