Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:43:57PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
>
> > 1) The way the Debian archive works requires the data to be stored
> > twice (source package and .deb).
>
> Why not allow Source only packages ?
Because installing such package requires you to have three times the
necessary space and there no way to make it installable from dselect
or apt-get install. For sure, if we can make those options works
correctly, I'm not opppsed to it. See also my suggestion about a deb package
who used .orig.tar.gz as an "external" data.tar.gz.
>
> May the Source be with you.
> Goswin
>
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