required files from unicode.org for jed-extra
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Tue Jul 29 10:11:10 UTC 2008
* G. Milde <milde at users.sourceforge.net> [2008-07-29 10:28]:
> On 25.07.08, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>
> > The only drawback is that the packages are huge:
>
> > $ apt-cache show perl-modules unicode-data | grep '^\(Package\|Installed-Size\):'
> > Package: perl-modules
> > Installed-Size: 16544
> > Package: unicode-data
> > Installed-Size: 12448
>
> OTOH, perl-modules is required by perl (and more than hundred other
> packages) while perl is required by more than thausand packages.
>
> IMO, it is OK to assume that perl (and hence perl-modules) is installed at
> the majority of boxes which want to use the extended features of ch_table.sl.
>
> Others (where disk space is a problem) might prefer a small jed-extra package.
>
> > The NamesList.txt file is not that small neither (870186 bytes), but
> > anyway...
>
> Individual download of the files (or maybe just Blocks.txt) is still an
> option for people without perl.
Okay, I will let the final decision to you. Just implement it and I will
upload the new version of the package.
Note that lenny has been frozen, so any changes now will only appear in
lenny+1.
--
Rafael
More information about the Pkg-jed-devel
mailing list