Re: Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)
> 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 ?
Or have a small .deb which installs the data and the data as a
tar.gz/tar.bz2 file which is symlinked from source or something like
that?
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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