On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 04:21:04PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > The project could offer 18 language files for a voice recognition > > > system, which is ( unpacked ) up to 2.4 GB each and packed upto around > > > 1.6~1.8 GB each. + 18 small ones ~50-60 MB each. [...] > But it's totally fine to ship such things in Fedora. We've done it > before and we'll continue doing so. External downloaders are pretty > much only used when something is unshippable. In this case, I can *definitely* see the value in having these packaged directly, because I can imagine IoT and desktop use cases where — even at that size — voice recognition would be important to have "out-of-the-box" without needing further Internet access. Marius, are the different language packs updated continually and separately, or is there one versioned set of all of them released at intervals? Is it a case where everything is regenerated, or are additions incremental? (And do they _replace_ or just add?) It does seem like it'd be nice to have a way to deliver (officially from Fedora in a way that can be shipped in Spins and containers) static files that don't change, without needing to redownload gigabytes on upgrade. Of course, delta RPMs are one way, but need a lot of investment in actually working again. Ostree deltas are another — and maybe upcoming work on container deltas could be helpful. (And... I think it'd be useful in a lot of cases to be able to do dist-git -> container without needing to build RPMs as an intermediate step. But... that's not a thing we have now.) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
