Hi, On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:17:45PM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > Adam has a very valid point that *.pyo and *.pyc files could be included > inside the deb, instead of compiled and removed by the pre/postinst scripts. I agree, this is allowed. If you want to have a TMDA package with .py[co] files in the .deb, you can do it this way, but you should also see the drawbacks. > The biggest drawback is suddenly your debs get larger, because they include > redundant pyc and pyo files, which can be autogenerated from py's. It is Yeah, think of us poor guys who have to pay per minute being Online with a 33k modem. Filesize is money :( I suggest comparing the file sizes. If your packages dont get a lot bigger (eg. difference is < 5%), then precompile the .py files. Otherwise I think the tradeoff is too much. Greetings, Bastian
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