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Re: deb package small file size?



On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:01:46PM -0400, Sully W Beardmore wrote:
> I'm JUST getting started with Debian, in fact I have a Knoppix CD in the
> mail right now.  I've been looking at the Debian package tree at Wine
> debs, and they seem incredibly small.  The normal rpm size of Wine is >6
> MB, but the deb was <1 MB!

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the wine package itself just
contains the WINE executables and a few other bits and pieces. You also
need libwine, and the sum of the sizes of wine and libwine are rather
closer to the RPM sizes you quote.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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