On Sunday 09 September 2007, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > On Saturday 08 September 2007, Michel Salim wrote: > > > On 11/08/2007, Robert Scheck <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > thousands of -devel packages is in my not so humble opinion what the > > > > reporter of bug #220484 would like to see. And I don't believe, > > > > there's any real benefit of doing so, so please avoid it. We're > > > > living in the 3rd year- thousand and I don't want to calculate what 5 > > > > MB of disk space could cost. > > > > > > Thirded. Consider that good ol' Slackware does not even split > > > development files out of their main packages! > > > > 5MB is actually pretty much if you consider setups on space constrained > > media such as live CDs, small flash disks etc. There have been other > > related lengthy discussions about things such as trimming package > > changelogs which would result in the same order of magnitude space > > savings when installed, so there are people who do care about numbers > > like that. > > Ehem. I talked about 5 MB for splitting the -devel package itself. Since > when are db4-devel packages installed on live CDs, small flash disks etc.? > And no, it's not the same. So please don't bring my argumentation out of > context! That wasn't my intention, sorry if I offended you. Your later (than your mailing list post) comment in #220484 seems very much opposed to the whole split and doesn't mention devel packages at all. Michel's reply above (which as the quote indicators show, is primarily what I replied to) seems to me to be using Slackware as a proof-of-concept argument that not caring about size overhead of development files in packages in general works just fine. And I don't actually see a db4-cxx-devel in the packages tree nor in the db4.spec CVS history. > Ville, I agree with you 5 MB are much for tiny mediums or embedded > devices, but this is not related to -devel packages itself. And I agree that splitting foo-devel into foo-bar-devel and foo-quux-devel is not usually that interesting if space considerations are the only thing driving it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
