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



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